New thinking on the climate crisis

TED2008 · 27:54 · Filmed Mar 2008

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Alex Steffen: The route to a sustainable future

In this brand-new slideshow (premiering on TED.com), Al Gore presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists recently predicted. He challenges us to act.

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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