Al Gore: The Climate Damage on Developing Countries
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One final point, because I know you have to move it around. I had the privilege of knowing a Russian poet is now deceased of Guinea. Up to shinko, we wrote of a famous poem about a man who came to the edge of a chasm. It was trying to decide whether to leap across it or not, could could make it and the point of the poem was don’t try to do it in to leaps.
>> Because that doesn’t work out well.
>> I think that that’s in some ways where we are with the energy transition and the sustainability transition, we have to make a commitment to go of all the way, but this business lobby is fighting tooth and nail in every form: international, national, even local. I fight them all over because they will not allow a single policy change that reduces the consumption of their products by single gram, and that-, and you know in the world’s all, we saw reductions in poverty for quite a number of years and then it stopped and reversed why climate climate so climate, the climate damage in developing and developed countries has halted the the creation of the alleviation of poverty. The climate crisis is both a a huge threat to humanity’s future and we have to scale our moral imagination to comprehend how serious it is, but it is also the greatest opportunity for income, enhancement and job creation in in the history of of the world, but we have to improve race, this change, and that means we we have to overcome their opposite they’re, losing their financial base of the financial basis of their power, they’re, losing electricity generation and beginning to lose transportation. Petrochemicals will take longer, but they’re going to lose their ability to stop progress and strikes. Finally, I think that embracing fully and completely this transition is the way to create more jobs and resolve the underlying conflict that you identify as a dry emma. Let’s pick
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