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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.

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
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
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
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
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
Take it from me: Elections matter.
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Election Myself One Liner
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
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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Achievement Balance Ourselves Believe Children Choice Earth Future Inheritance Work
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
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.
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Ability Affect Interest Powerful Virtual
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
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
Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.
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Choice Consumption Friendship Reward Start Way
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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Challenge Climate Conscious Issues Level Politics Spiritual
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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Development Goodness Need Technology Wait
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

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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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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