The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
AL GOREScience 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’.
More Al Gore Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
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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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The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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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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Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.
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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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We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
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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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Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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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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