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Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

Al Gore

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
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
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Argument Fact Law Side Yourself
Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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Earth Mom Nature
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
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
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Division Fear Hate Replacement Result
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
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
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Election People Population Vote
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
As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
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Account Action Government People Transparent
Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
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Change Each Other Live Solution Way
Take it from me: Elections matter.
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Election Myself One Liner
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
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
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
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Creation Internet Myself Service
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
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
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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Children Diminish Earth Environment Future Global Rain Reality
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 debate’s over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
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Fight Global International Movie People
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
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
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Collection Combination Force Nature Technology
In a time of darkness, you don’t curse the darkness, you light a candle.
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Darkness Inspirational Light Time Wisdom Yourself
A zebra does not change its spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love
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
I’m going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.
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Climate Focus Myself Possible Solve

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