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• What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we know it... Literally that is the case. We have seen global warming so far of just a little bit less than one degree Celsius and look at what's happened. Superstorm Sandy. Boulder Colorado. All these fires. Hurricane Irene one year before.

  Al Gore

  Fire, Years, Civilization

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• Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

  Al Gore

  Environment, Prosperity, Pollution

  "Bush, Gore Duel Over Energy Policy" by Carter M. Yang, abcnews.go.com.

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• As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

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  Light, Law, Important

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• The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this. But the political systems around the world have held this at arm's length because it's an inconvenient truth, because they don't want to accept that it's a moral imperative.

  Al Gore

  Responsibility, Community, Political

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• If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.

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  Believe, Civilization, Sound

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• Incredibly, while these 18 to 20 year-olds cannot legally buy a beer, cannot purchase a bottle of wine and cannot order a drink in a bar, right now they can walk into any gun shop, any pawn shop, any gun show, anywhere in America and buy a handgun.

  Al Gore

  Wine, Beer, Gun

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• There was never any doubt in our minds that men and women were equal, if not more so.

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  Men, Doubt, Mind

  "The 2000 Campaign: The Vice President; Gore Confronted by a New Issue: Playboy" by David Barstow, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2000.

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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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  Thinking, Law, Political

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• It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

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  Issues, Survival, Moral

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• The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

  Al Gore

  Cancer, Cutting, Sacrifice

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.119, Routledge

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• Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.

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  Clouds, Glasses, Holocaust

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• We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

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  Opportunity, Anticipation, Sometimes

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• There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

  Al Gore

  Eye, Air, Way

  "What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

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  Real, Coward, President

  "Gore blasts Bush on environment". www.cnn.com. January 15, 2004.

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• The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'

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  Editors, Support, Troops

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• When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

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  Energy, Demand, Difficulty

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• The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement

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  Procrastination, Entering, Warning

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• Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an “externality.” This absurd label means, in essence: we don’t to keep track of this stuff so let’s pretend it doesn’t exist.

  Al Gore

  Mean, Essence, Track

  Al Gore’s Speech on Global Warming at the New York University in New York City, New York, www.motherjones.com. September 19, 2006.

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• I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple.

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  Funny, Buddhist, Stupid

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• Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

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  House, Energy, Needs

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• In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don’t think there’s a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.

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  Believe, Thinking, America

  "An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. May 10, 2006.

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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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  Children, Names, Two

  "Our World" with David Newman, www.voanews.com. October 27, 2009.

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• As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

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  Party, President, Together

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• The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

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  Spiritual, Civilization, Lasts

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.260, Routledge

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• America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

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  Years, America, Political

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