Al Gore says 'We may have passed peak Trump'
Zero: The Climate Race
Bloomberg
4.7 • 219 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Former US Vice President Al Gore is one of the grandees of the climate world and knows just how much power America can wield on the international stage. So with President Trump on the warpath against climate action, how should other nations deal with an increasingly rogue US?
Gore joins Akshat Rathi on Zero to talk geopolitics, polarization, and energy-hungry artificial intelligence.
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| 0:00.0 | People are going to hate me. I won't move on with my life. And I was so petrified of being dragged across the coals for reporting them. And I still am. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Laura Hughes. And for the past two years, I've been uncovering the United Kingdom's perplexing relationship with lead. |
| 0:20.5 | What I found has shocked me. |
| 0:24.4 | From the Financial Times, this is untold. |
| 0:27.9 | Toxic legacy. |
| 0:30.2 | Out now. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to Zero. I am Akshadrati. |
| 0:33.6 | This week, El Gore on a rogue US. |
| 0:55.7 | Music This week, El Gore on a rogue U.S. Last week at COP, I had the great privilege of speaking with former US Vice President Al Gore, |
| 0:58.1 | one of the grandees of the climate world. |
| 1:04.7 | His film, An Inconvenient Truth, won him an Oscar and has inspired generations of climate activists. |
| 1:10.5 | And alongside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts |
| 1:11.5 | to obtain and disseminate information about the climate challenge. |
| 1:16.8 | Vice President Gore has been a guest on zero before back in 2023, when a lot of wind |
| 1:23.0 | seemed to be in the sales of climate action. But since Trump's return to office, |
| 1:28.0 | those fair winds have dropped, at least in the US, |
| 1:31.2 | and climate action seems on a much more turbulent course worldwide. |
| 1:36.0 | So I wanted to catch up with Vice President Gore |
| 1:38.4 | to hear what his experience in the US government |
| 1:41.2 | and his understanding of how the US can wield power on the global stage |
| 1:45.5 | can teach us about the current moment. |
| 1:48.4 | We had a wide-ranging conversation at COP30 in Berlin, and we are going to split that |
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