Posted on 06/21/2017 7:03:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former US vice-president says green revolution is bigger than industrial revolution and happening at faster pace than digital revolution.
“The climate movement should be seen in the context of the great moral causes that have transformed and improved the outlook for humanity,” he told the Ashden green energy awards ceremony. “It was wrong to allow slavery to continue, it was wrong to deny women the right to vote, it was wrong to discriminate on the basis of skin colour or who you fell in love with.
Gore acknowledged there was opposition to strong action on climate change, but cited the US civil rights movement as an inspiration: “During some of the bleakest days of the civil rights movement, Dr Martin Luther King Junior was asked by one of his fellow advocates how long is this going to take and he famously answered, not long because no lie can live for ever.”
Gore told his London audience he was optimistic of success, despite the recent US withdrawal from the global Paris climate accord: “No one person can stop the climate movement or the sustainability revolution – we are going to win no matter what President Donald Trump tries to do.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Psst, Algor, you Climate Change Globalists wants to enslave us to be your (the elites) slaves. We are fighting the elites like you....
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