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.
AL GORECivil 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.
More Al Gore Quotes
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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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When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.
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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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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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We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.
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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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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 planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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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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In a time of darkness, you don’t curse the darkness, you light a candle.
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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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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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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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Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
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A zebra does not change its spots.
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