Al Gore

But, you know, I had an experience.

I'm much older than you, of course.

And back when I was quite young, I was thrilled when President John F. Kennedy announced the challenge of

putting a person on the moon in 10 years and bringing them back safely.

My whole generation was, the whole country was.

Not everybody agreed with it, even back then.

But I do, in fact, I remember hearing people say, that's a lot of money.

We shouldn't do that.

What's the point?

All of that.

And it's probably not going to work anyway.

But eight years and two months later, Neil Armstrong said,

foot on the moon.

And in the moment when he did so in Houston, in Mission Control, there was a great cheer that went up.

And the average age of the systems engineers in that room who cheered was 26 years old, which means that when they first heard that

challenge, they were 18 years old.

They changed their careers, many of them.

They changed the plot of their life.

I hear that now among so many young people who are trying to gear up to help solve this big challenge.

And I think that the interference in clear and honest communication about this on the part of the