Al Gore

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.

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.