II – Chapter 13

0100 [01:29:35] "Delegates at the United Nations Climate Summit are expressing panic over Tuesday's election results, saying President-elect Donald Trump may threaten the future of any international agreement to slow catastrophic climate change. Trump has said he will, quote, "cancel the Paris Climate Agreement", and also promised to promote coal power and fracking, and says he will allow for oil and gas drilling on federal land. " (woman 21)

0200 [01:29:56] "A famous boxer once said, "Everybody has a plan until he gets punched in the face." " (Al Gore)

0300 [01:30:03] "Days into his presidency, Donald Trump is sending chills down the spines of environmentalists and some EPA employees. This trifecta of cabinet appointments all staunch fossil fuel supporters who've expressed doubts about the urgency of climate change. " (woman 22)

0400 [01:30:20] "For all the years I've been involved in this struggle. There have been lots of setbacks. So we have another one. " (Al Gore)

0500 [01:30:36] "With all those new threats, there's never been a more important time to speak truth to power. " (Al Gore)

0600 [01:30:51] "I do my best to speak for the public interest in solving the climate crisis. Even though it sounds a little highfalutin, I try to answer to the truth of what needs to be done. And each of us, in our own ways, has the obligation and some ability to feel what is more likely to be true than not. And if you work hard enough to get the best available evidence, you can feel if you are onto what the right thing is. " (Al Gore)

0700 [01:31:33] "And that's not arrogance, that's just a feeling that I think everybody is familiar with. And I've been working on this issue long enough that I feel very very deeply about what the right thing is. I'm not confused about it. " (Al Gore)

0800 [01:31:56] "I remember vividly when the Civil Rights Movement first began to pick up steam. We saw Bull Connor turning fire hoses on young African-American kids and we asked the older generation why it's just and fair to have laws that discriminate on the basis of skin color. And when they couldn't answer that question, the laws began to change. " (Al Gore)

0900 [01:32:26] "This movement to solve the climate crisis is in the tradition of every great moral movement that has advanced the cause of humankind. And every single one of them has met with resistance to the point where the many of the advocates felt despair and wondered, "How long is this going to take?" Martin Luther King famously answered a question during some of the bleakest hours of the Civil Right Movement when someone asked, "How long is this going to take?" He said, "How long? Not long, because no lie can live forever."" (Al Gore)

1000 [01:33:03] ""How long? Not long. Because the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. How long? Not long."" (Al Gore)

1100 [01:33:10] "We are close in this movement. We are very close to the tipping point beyond which this movement, like the abolition movement, like the women's suffrage movement, like the Civil Rights Movement, like the anti-apartheid movement, like the movements for gay rights, is resolved into a choice between right and wrong." (Al Gore)

1200 [01:33:32] "And because of who we are as human beings, the outcome is foreordained. And it is right to save the future for humanity. It is wrong to pollute this Earth and destroy the climate ba...balance. It is right to give the hope to the future generation. " (Al Gore)

1300 [01:33:53] "It will not be easy. And we, too, in this movement, will encounter a series of no's. The great American poet Wallace Stevens, in the last century, one of his line was this, "After the last no comes yes. And on that yes the future world depends."" (Al Gore)