Al Gore Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• 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

  Children, Believe, Choices

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.368, Routledge

• 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

• I drive a hybrid. Tipper and I got a Lexus hybrid. And we have a couple of Priuses in the family with our children. And I encourage people to make environmentally conscious choices because we all have to solve this climate crisis.

  Al Gore

  Encouragement, Children, Couple

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2006.

• 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. Suddenly we must confront some tough questions. How important are the medical needs of future generations?

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Humorous, Sacrifice

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

• Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

  Al Gore

  Choices, Friendly, Rewards

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

• The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

  Al Gore

  Science, Hands, Creating

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.37, Routledge

• 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.

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