Al Gore

Going up, 10 hottest years were the last 10.

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

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

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

A few days ago in Pakistan, 50.5 degrees.

That's 122.9 in Fahrenheit.

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

and the humidity goes up, the few areas in the world today that are labeled physiologically unlivable for human beings are due to expand quite dramatically by 2070, unless we act to cover all of these vast, heavily populated areas.

Is it realistic to ignore this crisis?

Look at what a few million climate refugees have done to promote authoritarianism and ultra-nationalism.

How can we handle one to two billion in the next 25 years?

Already here in Kenya, there are 800,000 refugees

We have to also ask if it's realistic to ignore the devastating damage predicted to the global economy.

Whole regions of the world are becoming uninsurable.

We see this in my country, where people are having their insurance canceled, they can't get it renewed.

We have seen predictions that

we could lose $25 trillion in the next 25 years just from the loss of the value of global housing properties.

And over the next half century, according to Deloitte, it would cost the economy $178 trillion if we don't act, but if we do act, we can add to the global economy by $43 trillion.

You know, I had a teacher who said we face the same choice in life over and over again, the choice between the hard right and the easy wrong.

It seems hard to choose correctly, but it would turn out to be even harder to take what looks like the easy wrong.