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Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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