Al Gore Quotes About Challenges

Quotes about: Challenges

• The climate crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. From not only the warming of the earth with higher global temperatures, but also from strengthening storms and expanding droughts to melting ice and rising seas, the costs of carbon pollution are already being felt by governments, corporations, taxpayers and families around the world. The climate crisis will affect everything that we love and alter the course of our future. Now, more than ever, we must come together to solve this global crisis. We must act decisively, rise to the occasion and solve this monumental challenge.

  Al Gore

  Government, Ice, Sea

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

  Al Gore

  Our World, Imagination, Challenges

  "Congress Holds Global Warming Hearings". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. March 21, 2007.

• The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

  Al Gore

  Country, Struggle, Cutting

• The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Waiting, Challenges

• Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?

  Al Gore

  Real, Fate, Challenges

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

• Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

  Al Gore

  Years, Challenges, Energy

  "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. July 20, 2008.

• We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.

  Al Gore

  Gratitude, Optimistic, Years

• I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless.

  Al Gore

  Optimistic, Challenges, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

• The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Issues

  "Gore and UN panel are awarded Nobel Peace Prize". www.nytimes.com. October 12, 2007.

• Anyone who deals with the climate crisis has an internal dialogue between hope and despair, because the challenge is so huge and the danger is so great and the stakes are so high. But I have always resolved that in favour of hope, and actually I'm more hopeful now than I was a decade ago when the solutions were visible on the horizon, but you had to seek reassurance that the technology experts that they're coming, they'll be here.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Hopeful, Challenges

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Sacrifice

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

• I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice –are we, in John Adams’ phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  Al Gore

  Law, Choices, Decision

  "Gore Sees No Reason to Run" by Patrick Healy, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. May 25, 2007.

• The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.

  Al Gore

  Challenges, Humanity, Climate

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm still trying to figure out exactly what President Trump represents in American politics. But, if nothing else, he represents a way for tens of millions of people who were desperate for change to just turn the table over and say, we want to start over again. But it is a challenge for our democracy. It definitely is. But, again, the remedy has to be devoting enough attention to restoring the way we make collective decisions in this country.

  Al Gore

  Country, People, Starting Over

  Source: www.pbs.org

• We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in the world [America] has to remain a part of this unprecedented global agreement to deal with it.

  Al Gore

  Country, Agreement, Civilization

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.

  Al Gore

  Real, Challenges, News

  Al Gore's testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee, and the Science and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Climate Crisis, abcnews.go.com. March 21, 2007.

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