In an economic recession, naturally, when you ask people to list their priorities, they're going to place a higher priority on the immediate economic situation. Al Gore More Quotes by Al Gore More Quotes From Al Gore If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value. Al Gore price-tag tools looks Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'. Al Gore atmosphere creating summer I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.' Al Gore racist-jokes men boys The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, `Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.'... You take action. Al Gore fiction-novels doctors baby George Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield. Al Gore collide belief reality I understand that being optimistic in this age is challenging, but I am optimistic nonetheless. Al Gore optimistic age challenges The rule of reason is the true sovereign in the American system. Al Gore sovereign reason As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet Al Gore founding internet stupid I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off. Al Gore concerned economy firsts To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit. Al Gore snakes space moon I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts. Al Gore united-states decision have-faith Pollution should never be the price of prosperity. Al Gore pollution prosperity environment We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives. Al Gore opportunity attention culture The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality. Al Gore gay mother boys There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future. Al Gore long reality thinking I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world. Al Gore white running people As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming. Al Gore community weather men Fake news has been around as long as news has been around. Al Gore news fake long It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling. Al Gore fulfilling blessing feels Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment. Al Gore eugenics law mean
