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George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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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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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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The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
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Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996. ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.
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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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If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet, I do think there is still some considerable hope that the full participation of individuals in that conversation of democracy can once again restore the integrity of the way our democracy works.
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This is by far the most serious crisis civilisation has ever faced.
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We need to put a price on carbon. This needs to be a priority for all of us in how we vote.
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You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge.
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When you talk about President Trump, the cable networks turned over so many hours of prime time to him. Why? Because he was entertaining, but also because it drove ratings. And that is different from what the news media is supposed to focus on.
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It's as if we think the laws of physics are subject to debate and amendment and political contributions can sway the laws of physics.
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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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A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: what in God's name were they doing? or they may look back and say: how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?
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We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in the world [America] has to remain a part of this unprecedented global agreement to deal with it.
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The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.
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The United States is the only nation that can lead the world toward a solution on climate change.
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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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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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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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