Al Gore
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And I could go through the rest of it, but we're not going to take it.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Such a well-framed question.
You know, back in my first movie 20 years ago, I noted that there were some people
who went from denial to despair without pausing on the intermediate step of actually doing something about the crisis that we're facing.
And that tendency is still around.
I wouldn't say that most people are doing that at all because people are participating.
You just got your solar.
So, I mean, there are millions of people- 19 years later, better late than never.
Well, you know, we've all got a long way to go still.
But I do think that the element of despair is a real challenge for sure.
And, you know, surprisingly, it was the first person back in the 1960s to have this saying that,
that I'm about to share with you, you've heard it before, it was Joan Baez, the antidote to despair is action.
And we've heard that in the permutation, the antidote to climate despair is climate action.
And it really is true.
And enough people are acting that we are beginning to see a turnaround.
And if I could kind of frame it in the scale of the question you asked, Tim, just imagine for a moment
what it could be like for this young generation, these young generations, to come to believe in the importance of a shared mission to save humanity's future.
It sounds like such a vast challenge that that in itself triggers some people to despair.
And it also makes some people disbelieve that it's possible.