There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the conflict of interest that can arise when financial incentives affect people's beliefs and opinions.
Al Gore emphasizes the idea that some individuals maintain a skeptical view on climate change not solely based on their understanding or evidence, but rather due to external influences, particularly financial ones from entities that profit from carbon emissions. This suggests that one's stance on important issues can be shaped by monetary interests, calling into question the integrity and authenticity of their beliefs.
In practice
In a debate about climate policies, this quote can illustrate how economic motivations may shape public opinions.
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.
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.
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.
It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.
As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships, or being patronised by zoologists, is to make bloody certain humans don't find out about it.
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