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Al Gore

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
810 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

And that's where we're putting another 175 million tons every single day.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

And it

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

You know, at the same time, Tim, during these last 20 years, we have seen a truly dramatic, nearly miraculous change in patterns of the global economy, whereby now every year we're investing twice as much

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

in renewable energy sources that don't create pollution as we are continuing to invest in fossil fuels.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

Now, the bad news is that we're still seeing all this investment in fossil fuels, but the good news is that we're seeing the dramatic change unfold in the real world.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

The climate policy discussion and those proposals that we're in a climate policy recession now led by Trump,

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

But in the real world, these changes are moving very quickly.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

I'll give you one quick example.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

If you look at all of the new electricity generation installed worldwide last year, we have all these discussions about nuclear and gas and coal still going and so forth.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

What percentage of all the new electricity was renewable last year?

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

The answer is 92.5%.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

I mean, it's just, you know, where the future is concerned, it's game over.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

We're going to win this.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

But in the U.S., it was 90%.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

And if you include rooftop solar, it was 92% in the U.S.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

last year.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

That was me.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

Good for you.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

As the Australians say, good on you.

The Bulwark Podcast
Al Gore: Trump Has Made a Historic Mistake

In the state of Texas, the home of the oil and gas industry in the United States, 80% of all the new electricity capacity was solar and wind.