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Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

Al Gore

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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Belief Fake Physical Reality
As many know, the Chinese expression for “crisis” consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for “danger,” the second the symbol for “opportunity.”
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Character Dangerous Expression Opportunity Symbol
I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
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Education Myself President Special
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
I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
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Enough Growth Myself Old
Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.
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Choice Consumption Friendship Reward Start Way
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
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Connection Destruction Human Nature Quick Yourself
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 world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.
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Challenge Face Imagination Moral Myself Planet World
A zebra can not change it’s spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love Spots
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
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Horizon Myself See Try
We’re operating this planet like a business in liquidation.
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Business Liquid Operation Planet
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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Alive Creative Emergency Generation Mission Planet Way
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
I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.
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Believe Better Freedom Religion Separate Strong Way
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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Climate Crisis Democracy Solve
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
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Cost Energy Myself Thinking Transition
The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.
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Earth Fate Kind Man Possible Religion
The will to act is a renewable resource.
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Act Renewable Resource Willing
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Election People Population Vote
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
Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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Future Moral Myself Nation Obligation Safety
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.
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Civil History Moral Obey Play Role Thinking Understand
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
Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.
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Earth Freedom Infrastructure Limitation
In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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Area Digital Myself Priority Privacy Secret
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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Big Change Children Escape Moral Ourselves

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