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Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an “externality.” This absurd label means, in essence: we don’t to keep track of this stuff so let’s pretend it doesn’t exist.
Al Gore
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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.
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The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.
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The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.
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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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Here`s my point. I don`t want you to be in a position years from now where you welcome Hillary Clinton and say actually you did win. It just wasn`t close enough to make sure that all the votes were counted or whatever. Elections have consequences. Your vote counts. Your vote has consequences.
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As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws
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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 scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
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In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.
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In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.
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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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I feel passionate about solving the climate crisis.
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
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I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.
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I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.
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If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.
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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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You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.
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And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that.
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All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.
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