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01Undated

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Al Gore / quote

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02Undated

China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of China older than age eleven (and younger than sixty) have been formally required to plant at least three trees per year. To date, China has planted approximately 100 million acres of new tress. Following China, the countries with the largest net gains in tress include the U.S., India, Vietnam, and Spain.

Al Gore / quote

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03Undated

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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04Undated

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

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05Undated

Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some things have changed since the 19th Century.

Al Gore / quote

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06Undated

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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07Undated

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

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08Undated

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.

Al Gore / quote

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09Undated

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

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10Undated

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

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11Undated

I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

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12Undated

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

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13Undated

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

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14Undated

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

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15Undated

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

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16Undated

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

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17Undated

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

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18Undated

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

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19Undated

A zebra does not change its spots.

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20Undated

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

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21Undated

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

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