Always remember: we have no one to answer to but ourselves. Make no excuses for doing anything that you want to do, no matter who foolish it might sound to others; if it sounds and feels right to you, the only thing you will have is regret if the path is not followed.
It is difficult to sum, conclude, or draw upon the words of a master thinker. Expounding in any meaningful way will introduce redundancy. Heres Al Gore on the challenge of the future, from The Assault on Reason. Gore is a profound human being.
In order to conquer our fear and walk boldly forward on the path that lies before us, we have to insist on a higher level of honesty in America’s political dialogue. When we make big mistakes in America, it is usually because the people have not been given an honest accounting of the choices before us. It is also usually because too many leaders in both parties who knew better did not have the courage to do better.
Our children have the right to hold us to a higher standard when their future-indeed, the future of all human civilization-is hanging in the balance. They deserve better than politicians who sit on their hands and do nothing to confront the greatest challenge that humankind has ever confronted-even as the danger bears down on us.-
and more Gore on the Climate Crisis:
The opportunity presented by the climate crisis is not only the opportunity for new and better jobs, new technologies, new opportunities for profit, and a higher quality of life. It gives us an opportunity to experience something that few generations ever have the provledge of knowing: a common moral purpose compelling enough to lift us above our limitations and movivate us to set aside some of the bickering to which we as human beings are naturally vulnerable….
We must disenthrall ourselves from the latest sequential obsession with celebrity trials or whatever relative trivality dominates the conversation of democracy instead of making room for us as free American citizens to talk with one another about our true situation-and then save our country.
