Al Gore Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

  Al Gore

  Effort, Details, Research

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.40, Routledge

• Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

  Al Gore

  Mean, Eugenics, Law

• We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Civilization

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.294, Routledge

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