To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore shares his advice on how to solve the climate crisis now
Campaign to encourage voters to register and to put climate at the top of their lists of concerns when voting in the 2020 elections.The Climate Reality Action Fund is focusing its efforts on several key states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Florida and Nevada.
The past five years have been the warmest five years on record. Nineteen of the hottest years ever measured have been in the last 20 years. From devastating droughts and heatwaves to unprecedented storms and “rain bombs,” to rapidly melting polar ice and sea-level rise, to tens of millions of climate refugees, and more, every night on the television news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.
We are in the beginning stages of a sustainability revolution, which has the magnitude of the industrial revolution and the speed of the digital revolution.The road is not going to be easy, but when the cause is worth fighting for, the road seldom is. Throughout the history of human civilization, things have taken longer to happen than people think they will, but then they have happened much faster than people thought they could. Such is the case with climate action.
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