We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the urgent need for collective action towards environmental sustainability by instilling a shared sense of responsibility among the current generation.
Al Gore's quote highlights the critical state of our planet and the pressing need for individuals today to embrace a collective mission to combat environmental challenges. He suggests that fostering a sense of generational mission can motivate people to take meaningful actions that contribute to the health and sustainability of the earth for future generations.
In practice
In a speech at a climate summit, you might say, 'As Al Gore stated, we have a planetary emergency that requires each of us to embrace a generational mission for sustainable practices.'
Global warming is real and human activity is the main cause. The consequences are mainly negative and headed toward catastrophic, unless we act. However, the good news is that we can meet this challenge. It is not too late, and we have everything we need to get started.
The climate crisis is not a political issue; it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.
At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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