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 GOREDistributed 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.
More Al Gore Quotes
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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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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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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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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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During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
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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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Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
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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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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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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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I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.
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The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.
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Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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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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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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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
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Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.
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Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.
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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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I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
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I’m going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.
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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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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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