Al Gore
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And the majority of that is solar.
So, you know, on the next biggest source of the emissions...
is transportation, cars, trucks, planes, et cetera.
And yet from a standing start up until December of this past year, in that month, 29% of all new vehicles sold worldwide are now EVs.
In China, 60%.
The trend line is amazing.
And in countries you might not expect, like Ethiopia and Nepal, they're going to 100% EVs.
It just makes sense, you know?
And so this sustainability revolution is still gaining momentum.
But put these two halves together.
More pollution, unfortunately.
A failure on policy.
But the solutions are growing rapidly.
When you put them together...
The crisis is still getting worse quicker than we are assembling the solutions and implementing the solutions, but we're gaining.
And as I said before, we're gonna win this.
The only question is whether we will win it in time
to avoid going over some of these so-called negative tripwires, negative tipping points.
And some of them sound like science fiction movies, like the Gulf Stream shutting down, for God's sake.
But it's real, because the scale of this is just so unprecedented.