Al Gore Quotes - Page 13

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• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

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  Culture, Peers, Peer Review

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

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  Technology, Police, Essentials

  "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change". Book by Al Gore, 2013.

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• The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

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  House, Perception, Climate

  "Al Gore: 'The message still has to be about the reality we're facing'". Interview with Brad Plumer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.

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• The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.

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  Sacrifice, Long, Perspective

  Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. February 17, 2013.

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• When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term.

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  Flirting, People, Despair

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

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  Fashion, War, Political Will

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• In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.

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  Time, Creativity, Creative

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• We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

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  Community, Action, Conceit

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• Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

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  Hands, Ideas, People

  "Draft Gore Movement Picks Up Steam" by Bill Katovsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2007.

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• All I have to do is be the best Al I can be, because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and, doggone it, people like me.

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  Positive, Smart, People

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• What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

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  Change, Feelings, Environmental

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• The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it's business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.

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  Answers, Fuel, Saving

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• I smoked pot in college and in the Army.

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  Weed, Army, Marijuana

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• There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere.

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  Determination, Believe, Atmosphere

  Al Gore (2017). “The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Era of Trump”, p.296, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply...let me assure you that I share youR belief that innocent human life must be protected.

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  Numbers, Abortion, Belief

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• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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  Funny, Fake People, Mistake

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• The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

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  Threatening Us, Climate, Catastrophe

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge.

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  War, Struggle, Sacrifice

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.

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  Climate, Needs, Guarantees

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• I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

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  Play, Doubt, Energy

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

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• There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

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  Thinking, Reality, Long

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

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  Culture

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• I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.

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  Running, White, People

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• If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

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  Price Tag, Tools, Looks

  Al Gore (2009). “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, Rodale Books

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• I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

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  Men, Boys, Racist Jokes

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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