Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.
AL GOREThe warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don’t really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.
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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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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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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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The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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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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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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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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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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I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.
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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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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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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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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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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 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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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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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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The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
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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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