What the fossil fuel industry doesn't want you to know | Al Gore
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🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In a blistering talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore looks at the two main obstacles to climate solutions and gives his view of how we might actually solve the environmental crisis in time. You won't want to miss his searing indictment of fossil fuel companies for walking back their climate commitments -- and his call for a global rethink of the roles of polluting industries in politics and finance.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily. |
| 0:14.1 | Climate advocate and Nobel laureate Al Gore says we are seeing tremendous progress in the |
| 0:19.3 | global climate crisis. |
| 0:21.4 | But the situation is growing worse, faster than we're deploying solutions. |
| 0:26.6 | In his 2023 talk from the Ted Countdown Summit, he lays out the main obstacles in the |
| 0:31.7 | way to cutting down emissions and how these obstacles are surmountable after the break. |
| 0:41.1 | What's up with the weather? |
| 0:42.4 | If you're confused about climate change, there's a show for you. |
| 0:45.5 | Ted climate from the Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:48.1 | Join host Dan Courtler as he brings you leading experts who will unpack every problem and |
| 0:52.8 | solution of our climate crisis. |
| 0:55.0 | From carbon to capitalism, from wind power to sustainable housing, you'll learn not only |
| 0:59.8 | how the world is changing, but what changes you can make in your daily life to help keep |
| 1:03.8 | the planet livable. |
| 1:05.6 | Find Ted Climate wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:10.1 | The most important question these days is how can we speed up the solutions to the climate |
| 1:16.1 | crisis? |
| 1:17.1 | I'm convinced we are going to solve the climate crisis. |
| 1:20.2 | We've got this, but the question remains, will we solve it in time? |
| 1:25.7 | Others have said we're kind of in a race, and we have gotten used to the fact that the |
| 1:30.1 | world suffers deep droughts and huge rain bombs and downpours and floods simultaneously. |
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