Al Gore Quotes

If we don’t tackle these problems soon, they will tackle us.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

Climate change should not fundamentally be seen as a political or partisan issue, but it has been turned into a political football primarily by the climate deniers who have a vested interested in maintaining the status quo. That includes certain industrial interests, financial interests and political interests.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late... The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.

If we do not act now, we will become spectators to slaughter.

No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished.

We have to take immediate and durable action on climate change.

We have to fight climate change like we actually want to win.

We need to take urgent action on climate change.

I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Now comes the threat of climate crisis - a threat that is real, rising, imminent, and universal. Once again, it is the 11th hour. The penalties for ignoring this challenge are immense and growing, and at some near point would be unsustainable and unrecoverable. For now we still have the power to choose our fate, and the remaining question is only this: Have we the will to act vigorously and in time, or will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion?

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?