Al Gore

There's one thing that the so-called climate realists are right about.

In spite of this progress, we are still moving too slowly.

to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

We have got to accelerate it.

We have the ability to do so, but the single biggest reason we have not been able to move faster is the ferocious opposition to virtually every policy proposal to try to speed up this transition and reduce the emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

And the fossil fuel industry has used a lot of bright, shiny objects to divert the public's attention and deceive them into thinking there are solutions other than reducing fossil fuel use.

For example, carbon capture and storage and direct air capture and the recycling of plastics.

And, you know, they're much better at capturing politicians than they are at capturing emissions.

And they are employing ...

They're employing their captive politicians and policymakers to help confuse the public.

Here's an example.

Tony Blair, speaking for his foundation, his foundation gets massive funding from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Azerbaijan, et cetera.

He said, oh, well, the center of the battle has to be carbon capture and direct air capture.

Well ...

He really should know better, you know?

Upton Sinclair wrote in My Country Years Ago, it's difficult to get a man to understand something if his income depends on him not understanding it.

The income goes to the foundation, as I understand it.

So, boy, look, we're going for carbon capture.

We don't have to reduce the burning of fossil fuel.

We'll capture it all as it goes out the smokestack.