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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.

Al Gore

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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Day Internet Invention Myself
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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Act Climate Dirty Disturb Energy Quick Weather
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
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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Disturb Ideas Politics Reason Truth
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
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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Challenge Energy Freedom Nation
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
We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.
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Biology Country Secret Store Weapon
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
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Collection Combination Force Nature Technology
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
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.
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Funny Nature Photograph Travel
I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
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Enough Growth Myself Old
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
A zebra can not change it’s spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love Spots
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
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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Civilization Deep Drive Earth Expansion Nature Ourselves Surface Willing
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
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
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
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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Atheist Country Faith People Religious Right
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
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
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Division Fear Hate Replacement Result
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
A zebra does not change its spots.
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Acceptance Change Self Love
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
Take it from me: Elections matter.
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Election Myself One Liner

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