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The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Al Gore

Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.
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Creation Dangerous Global Nature Quick Science Warning
Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
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Civilization Future Life Ourselves
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
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Challenge Energy Freedom Nation
Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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Environment Impact Kind Product
We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
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Biology Country Secret Store Weapon
The will to act is a renewable resource.
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Act Renewable Resource Willing
Well, the title “An Inconvenient Truth” is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don’t seem to accept the truth.
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Acceptance People President Reason Truth
The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed…. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.
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Development Goodness Need Technology Wait
The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.
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Enemy Global Ourselves Struggle War
Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.
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Climate Destruction Ice Scientist Summer
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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Beyond Breathe Change Civilization Ourselves Past
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
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Achievement Balance Ourselves Believe Children Choice Earth Future Inheritance Work
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
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Funny Nature Photograph Travel
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because of their inefficiency in moving information.
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Civilization Distribution Human Information Intelligence Past
Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
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Believe Better Demand Leadership Ourselves Power Voice
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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Attention Planet

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

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