Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
AL GOREOur way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
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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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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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In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
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Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.
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Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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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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During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
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The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
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Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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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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Take it from me: Elections matter.
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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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The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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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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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
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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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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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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.
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For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
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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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Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
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The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
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At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.
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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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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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