Al Gore on the new urgency of the climate crisis

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🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has been a leader in climate advocacy for over 40 years. He argues that amid the global pandemic and worldwide calls for racial justice, climate action can help create a “clean, prosperous, just future” for all. He also highlights youth’s vital role in pressuring governments and businesses on environmental issues, and the effect of strategies like carbon pricing and nuclear energy on reducing emissions. This virtual conversation is part of TED2020, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson. It was recorded June 23, 2020.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.0	Hello there, I'm Chris Anderson and this is the Ted interview.
0:15.0	Well, if we've learned one thing from this pandemic, it might be this.
0:19.0	When the world scientists unite in telling you there is something really dangerous coming
0:23.5	away, it's a really good idea to pay attention to that, like a really good idea.
0:30.5	And it turns out there is another really deadly thing that a large number of scientists
0:35.4	have said is coming our way, something that is arguably a far greater danger to the human
0:41.0	race, in fact to our planet, than even this pandemic, from referring of course to the climate
0:47.2	crisis.
0:48.2	We're going to turn our attention to that today and we have the perfect guess for it.
0:52.5	Al Gore served for eight years as vice president of the United States and to build Clinton,
0:58.5	during which time he, among many other things, elevated questions of science and the environment.
1:04.5	He came within one little hanging chair of becoming president.
1:08.5	And since then, I think he's done more than any other human being over the last 20 years
1:14.5	to really elevate issues of the climate crisis to us all.
1:19.5	So today he educates us in compelling detail on the real possibilities of innovation to reduce
1:26.5	greenhouse gas emissions, possibilities that could be in closer reach to us now as we strive
1:32.2	to rebuild a greener world, a better future from the destruction of this pandemic.
1:38.5	This interview was recorded live before a virtual audience at TED 2020, which is going on through mid July.
1:45.5	It's my great pleasure to welcome vice president Al Gore.
1:48.5	Hi Chris.
1:50.5	Oh, welcome.
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