Al Gore: Averting the climate crisis
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Nobel Laureate Al Gore focused the world’s attention on the global climate crisis. Now he’s showing us how we’re moving towards real solutions. Full bio
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to have the opportunity
I'm extremely grateful.
for the many nice comments
or boots to get on an airplane!
that's been like for me.
every bit of this is true.
(Mock sob) White House --
in Nashville to a little farm we have
a little thing to you, but --
we found a Shoney's restaurant.
for those of you who don't know it.
and the waitress came over,
to the couple in the booth next to us,
what she was saying.
Vice President Al Gore
of a series of epiphanies.
continuing the totally true story,
to make a speech in Nigeria,
on the topic of energy.
by telling them the story
the day before in Nashville.
I've just shared it with you:
family restaurant chain,
out to the airport to fly back home.
of the night, we landed
I went out to get some fresh air,
running across the runway.
of paper, and he was yelling,
in the middle of the night,
wrong in Washington?
it could be a bunch of things.
in Nigeria had already written a story
announced in Nigeria yesterday," quote:
a low-cost family restaurant'" --
had already started in on --
in a big white chef's hat,
"One more burger with fries!"
and colleague Bill Clinton, saying,
on the new restaurant, Al!"
each other's successes in life.
about information ecology.
of coming back to TED,
about that another time.
on what many of you have said
just four or five.
every time I give it.
every time I give it.
you find some more shells.
the new temperature records in January.
the United States of America.
for Januarys is 31 degrees;
bad news about the environment --
material about what you can do.
on a couple of these.
we're projected to go
to global warming,
and end-use of all energy
it's not a cost; it's a profit.
that pay for themselves.
in deflecting our path.
about that in the slideshow,
that comes from buildings
standards in the world.
But it's part of the puzzle.
is as important as cars and trucks.
of technological efficiency
and others, many of you here --
directly involved in this --
much more rapidly
that's what CCS stands for --
that will enable us
in a way that is safe.
are also profitable.
that are much better.
on the global climate crisis.
a carbon-neutral life.
that connects with the most people.
have made that decision,
your carbon dioxide emissions
of choices that you make,
completely reduced.
at climatecrisis.net.
of carbon calculation,
carbon calculator.
what your CO2 emissions are,
options to reduce.
comes out in May,
purchases of offsets.
your business carbon-neutral.
into all of your innovations,
and architecture community.
with managers who you compensate
about quarterly report CEO management.
what you pay them to do.
they're going to get paid
talk about it.
of the slideshow
except it's a lot more entertaining.
to ensure that a lot of people see it.
to give this slideshow --
of the personal stories obviously replaced
it's what they mean.
a course this summer
nominated by different folks
for all of them every single week,
somewhere in that process,
and limited-use copyrights,
and do it in their own way.
arm's length from politics?
that if you're a Republican,
to be a Democrat.
in this group it really is.
it's supposed to work.
carbon dioxide emissions --
and trading it.
is out of the world system,
with U.S. participation,
who's on a board of directors --
serve on the board of directors
if you do not urge your CEO
and trading the carbon emissions
to solve this problem --
that will start this spring.
of the American people.
do not have permission
of logic and reason no longer includes
the way it once did.
30-second, 28-second television ads.
as many of you have suggested.
instead of "climate collapse,"
who are good at branding,
we're facing now, a scientist told me,
of an opposable thumb
and I'll repeat now:
this shouldn't be partisan.
than some of us who are Democrats do.
to the ideas that are here,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Al Gore - Climate advocateNobel Laureate Al Gore focused the world’s attention on the global climate crisis. Now he’s showing us how we’re moving towards real solutions.
Why you should listen
Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management. While he’s is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple, Inc.’s board of directors, Gore spends the majority of his time as chair of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis.
He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The Assault on Reason, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, and most recently, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. He is the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth and is the co-recipient, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.”
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.
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