Al Gore
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Al Gore reads as The Visionary because his career has been defined by seeing consequences before the consensus does. The former US Vice President, appearing on The David Rubenstein Show, spoke as he leads, from a long horizon, treating the future as a moral claim on the present. His authority derives less from the office he held than from his persistence in asking others to look further ahead than comfort allows.
“When we stop adding heat trapping pollution to the atmosphere and stabilize at net zero, the temperature will stop going up immediately. It's a thermostatic system, and the thermostat is a set of policies.”
“I first asked myself the question, how can I recreate the aha moment that I had and explain this in a way that takes this great scientist's message to others, because it's so critical.”
“The cheapest electricity in the history of the world is solar energy. Something better has come along to replace fossil fuels, which are dirty and polluting and threatening humanity's future.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Former US Vice President Al Gore”
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