Former Vice President Al Gore has two messages about the climate crisis: the first is to young people and the second is to President Trump. Here are both.
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00:00Most of the great morally-based revolutions
00:03in human history have been significantly led
00:07by young people.
00:09The movement to solve the climate crisis
00:11and to solve it in time must be led by young people.
00:16The School Strike Movement, the Extinction Rebellion,
00:20other movements that are springing up around the world
00:24are being led primarily by young people.
00:28I would say that you do have a source of moral authority
00:33that older people do not.
00:35You will live with the consequences
00:37of the decisions made today
00:39for far longer than my generation will.
00:43That does give you an opportunity
00:45to speak up insistently, boldly, loudly, fiercely,
00:50and demand change.
00:58I guess, in all honesty,
01:17my message to Mr. Trump would be somewhat different.
01:21I would tell him to resign.
01:23He wouldn't take my advice,
01:24but I've tried to talk with him about climate,
01:28and I thought there was a chance he might listen and change,
01:32but I was wrong, and I have to say,
01:35I think there's very little chance
01:37that he will change in the years ahead.
01:40But I would still give the same substantive advice.
01:44We've got to do more.
01:45We have a global emergency.
01:47It's all hands on deck.
01:49The good news is we have the technologies
01:52to solve this crisis.
01:53They create jobs.
01:55They clean up our air and water.
01:58They save our future.
02:01There's nothing bad about this strategy.
02:05The only thing we need to do is to end the resistance
02:11to them that comes from the fossil fuel companies,
02:14and they're powerful, I understand,
02:16and they have money and political connections,
02:19and they're desperately trying to stop the world
02:23from shifting away from the fossil fuels
02:26that are primarily causing this crisis,
02:28but our future is at stake.
02:31Our children and grandchildren
02:32and 1,000 generations to come,
02:35those of us alive right now,
02:37and particularly heads of state
02:39who have an unparalleled opportunity to effect change,
02:44should recognize that this is the time for bold action.