Averting the climate crisis

TED2006 · 16:17 · Filmed Feb 2006
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With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from buying a hybrid to inventing a new, hotter "brand name" for global warming.

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Al Gore

Climate-change prophet

Once the US Vice President, then star of An Inconvenient Truth, now Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore found a way to focus the world's attention on climate change. In doing so, he has invented a new medium — the Keynote movie — and reinvented himself. Full bio