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.
AL GOREDuring my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
More Al Gore Quotes
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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
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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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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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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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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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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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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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I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
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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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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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Take it from me: Elections matter.
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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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The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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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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