I – Chapter 30

0100 [01:26:53] "Ultimately, this question comes down to this. Are we capable of rising above ourselves and above history? " (Al Gore)

0200 [01:27:04] "Well, the record indicates that we do have that capacity. We established freedom and self-determination in the United States and in France and then all over the world. The same year, Lincoln freed America's slaves, Russia freed its serfs. Women earned the right to vote, first in New Zealand, then in Scandinavia, and it spread from there." (Al Gore)

0300 [01:27:27] "The entire world defeated fascism in both Europe and the Pacific, simultaneously. " (Al Gore)

0400 [01:27:34] "The moral force for non-violence triggered a revolution that spread to other countries. The world supported Nelson Mandela's victory in tearing down the apartheid system." (Al Gore)

0500 [01:27:46] "Scientists and doctors from many nations worked together to conquer fearsome diseases like smallpox and polio. " (Al Gore)

0600 [01:27:55] "And the two superpowers finally ended their deadly nuclear arms race. We landed on the Moon. The very example of what's possible when we are at our best. " (Al Gore)

0700 [01:28:06] "We worked together to bring down communism. " (Al Gore)

0800 [01:28:09] "We have even solved a global environmental crisis before, the hole in the stratospheric ozone layer. This was said to be an impossible problem to solve because it's a global environmental challenge requiring cooperation from every nation in the world. But we took it on. And the United States took the lead in phasing out the chemicals that caused that problem." (Al Gore)

0900 [01:28:31] " So now we have to use our political processes in our democracy and then decide to act together to solve those problems. But we have to have a different perspective on this one. It's different from any problem we have ever faced before. " (Al Gore)