Al Gore Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

  Al Gore

  Time, War, Struggle

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.275, Routledge

• 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

• 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

• We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.

  Al Gore

  War, Struggle, Civilization

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.294, Routledge

• All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

  Al Gore

  Struggle, Light, Law

• Where solar energy is concerned - and wind energy and battery storage and electric vehicles and efficiency technologies - that is what we are now seeing. So, yes, I'm very optimistic, but anyone who works on the climate crisis has an internal struggle between hope and despair. I won't deny that, but hope has always prevailed in my outlook.

  Al Gore

  Struggle, Optimistic, Technology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.

  Al Gore

  Cheer, Struggle, Gay

  "Former VP Al Gore on environmentalism, Trump, and the climate crisis". "Sunday Morning" with Lee Cowan, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2017.

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