Al Gore
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Al Gore reads as The Visionary because his career has been defined by seeing consequences before the consensus does. The former US Vice President, appearing on The David Rubenstein Show, spoke as he leads, from a long horizon, treating the future as a moral claim on the present.
“More heat trapping pollution to the atmosphere. At what they call net zero, the temperature will stop going up immediately. It's a thermostatic system. And the thermostat is not a round knob on the wall. It's the set of policies that currently include massive subsidies for fossil fuels. If we didn't subsidize...”
“Hard to imagine what a billion climate migrants would do to our capacity for self-governance. And we're in danger of crossing some so-called negative tipping points like the shutting down of the Gulf Stream. Sounds like a science fiction movie, and it was, but it's now a very real threat, and there are others.”
“A few places around the Persian Gulf, the combination of heat and humidity makes it impossible for people to live for more than four or five hours outdoors. Those areas are now beginning to expand dramatically.”
“Actually, you ran for President of the United States in the year 2025. You lost by maybe, some people would say 530 some votes in one in Florida, or you could say one vote in the Supreme Court. Depending on how you look at it, why did you not go complain about that or say, hey, the election's stolen?”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Former US Vice President Al Gore”
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