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“As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.”
— Al GoreAl Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
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“Sixty-eight percent of Americans now believe that human activity is responsible for global warming. Sixty-nine percent believe that the Earth is heating up in a significant way. There has been progress, but here is the key: when given a list of challenges to confront, global warming is still listed at near the bottom. What is missing is a sense of urgency.”
— Al GoreAl Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
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“The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions, all has a single, very simple solution. … Here it is: Put a price on carbon.”
— Al GoreAl Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
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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.”
— Al GoreAl Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
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“We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.”
— Al GoreAl Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
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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.”
— Al GoreAl Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
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