Al Gore

Is it realistic to ignore the fact that right now Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice every single hour?

In Antarctica, decade by decade, the ice melting has accelerated.

We've seen the doubling of the pace of sea level rise in the last 20 years, and the predictions are that it's going to continue dramatically.

Is it realistic to ignore the rapidly increasing climate crisis extreme events

that are occurring practically every night on the television news is like a nature hike through the book of Revelation.

We lost three and a half trillion dollars just in the last decade.

And you know, the fact that these scientists were absolutely correct decades ago when they predicted these exact consequences should cause us to pay a little more attention to what they're predicting is in store for us in the years ahead if we do not act.

The drought last year and continuing at some level in the Amazons, the worst drought in the history of the Brazilian Amazon.

Ninety percent of the Amazon River in Colombia went dry.

This is the third year in a row that we've had these massive fires in Canada.

When I left Tennessee to fly over here, we were breathing in Nashville, Tennessee smoke from the Canadian wildfires.

And they're still getting worse.

Today, the wildfires have doubled over the last 20 years in frequency, and they're due to increase even more.

Is it realistic to ignore the massive health impacts of the climate crisis?

You know, the World Health Organization has long told us it is the most serious health threat facing humanity.

Just last week, the University of Manchester released a new study warning that three species of fungi in the next 15 years, because of increasing temperatures and increasing precipitation, will pose a significant risk of infection to millions of people.

The fact that the fungi are being pushed into the range where they can threaten humans, that is not a fiction.

The particulate air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels kills almost nine million people a year, costs almost three trillion dollars per year from the burning of fossil fuels for both energy and petrochemicals.

Cancer Alley is the stretch that runs from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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