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Al Gore

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TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

the fossil fuel burning, and they're now advocating a new approach that they call climate realism.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

Well, climate realism, according to them, we should abandon the efforts to deal with the principal cause of the climate crisis, 80 percent of it comes from burning fossil fuels, and we should focus on adaptation as well, almost exclusively.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

Well, we need adaptation.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

A lot of people are suffering, but do we want to vastly increase the number of people that have to go through that hardship and suffering instead of dealing with the cause of the crisis and solving the climate crisis?

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

They, according to climate realism, historically the energy transitions have

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

have taken place very slowly.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

So we have no right as human beings to even imagine that we could go faster in the future than what history has told us was the reality in the past, even though human civilization is at stake.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

For the so-called climate realists, the goal of solving a climate crisis is way less important than other goals, such as especially increasing energy access to developing countries, which is obviously important, we'll deal with that, but they want to do it, obviously, by burning more fossil fuels.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

According to climate realism, it's just not practical to stop using the sky as an open sewer for the emissions from burning fossil fuels and the other emissions.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

Instead, we should just continue using the sky as an open sewer.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

So where climate realism is concerned, I have some questions.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

Is it realistic to ignore the one to two billion climate refugees that the climate scientists are warning us will cross international borders and have to move inside their own nations by 2050 because of the climate crisis?

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

You know the temperatures keep

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

Going up, 10 hottest years were the last 10.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

Last year, 2024, was the hottest year in all of history.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

Yesterday, in parts of the Persian Gulf, 52.6 degrees.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

And for those of us who use Fahrenheit, 126.7 degrees.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

A few days ago in Pakistan, 50.5 degrees.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

That's 122.9 in Fahrenheit.

TED Talks Daily
Why climate action is unstoppable — and "climate realism" is a myth | Al Gore

And they're telling us that as the temperatures go up,