Al Gore Quotes, Character Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."

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In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

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The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.

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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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The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

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Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

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When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

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I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an aeroplane.

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It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

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Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

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The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.

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The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

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Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]

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The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.

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We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

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Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

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The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

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When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

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