As Emly Atkin of HEATED writes in a recent article, “Catastrophic flash-flooding in Vermont. Punishing drought across the Midwest. Unrelenting heat waves in Arizona and Texas. Devastating wildfires in Maui, Hawaii. Dangerous smoke pollution across the Eastern United States. A havoc-wreaking freak tropical storm in Southern California. A rain bomb in the Nevada desert during Burning Man. And that’s just within the United States. For years, climate scientists have told us that the more carbon we put into the atmosphere, the worse extreme weather events like these would get. So why haven’t we acted more quickly to draw down those emissions? In his latest TED Talk, Al Gore convincingly argues, it’s not because the technology to draw down carbon pollution isn’t ready. It’s because the people who profit from carbon pollution aren’t ready—and will never be, until regular people apply enough pressure to make them.”
Gore’s TED talk is part of TED Countdown which is TED’s annual “global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world.”
Gore’s talk is a “searing indictment of fossil fuel companies for walking back their climate commitments -- and his call for a global rethink of the roles of polluting industries in politics and finance.”
How about taking 25 minutes and 44 seconds to watch the video and then using the remaining 4 minutes and change to email the link to five friends and urge them to watch it and spread it further?