Al Gore Urges Global Mobilization to Combat Climate Crisis
While changing light bulbs and installing solar panels on our roofs can help solve our climate problem, we must also mobilize political will. At this talk hosted by TED, Vice President Al Gore discusses the problem of climate change, and how we must first become active in our democracy in order to solve the climate problem.
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Al Gore has been making sure that things are being done to help solve the current climate crisis. But he also believes that more needs to be done before we can feel optimistic. At a talk hosted by TED, in Monterey, California, Al Gore explains that we “need to change the laws, not light bulbs”, and he has been trying to do just that. Before he created the Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, he was the Vice President of the United States. Al Gore, after leaving Washington, DC in order to educate the world about the dangers of climate change, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007.
Gore explains that while he is an advocate for solar panels and hybrid cars, we need to do more than that to see an actual change in our environment. At least for now, we should be focusing on changing laws in order to make a real difference. He uses one of Mahatma Gandhi’s most famous quotes to illustrate his point: “you must become the change you wish to see in the world”. In order for people to be optimistic about seeing a positive change in the environment, they must first be proactive about making a change.
While many people are proactive about local environmental problems, there are regional, and even a global, conflicts that also must be addressed. More often than not, people leave out citizenship in their fight for climate protection; however, it is Gore’s belief that the first thing we should be doing is addressing the government and being politically active.
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