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I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
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Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.
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Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven.
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The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
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Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.
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There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.
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Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.
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Here is the truth: The Earth is round Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11 Elvis is dead Obama was born in the United States and the climate crisis is real.
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What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.
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Believe in the power of your own voice.
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When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived.
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As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
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The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.
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I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.
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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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I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.
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We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.
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I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.
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You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.
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You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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