Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

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Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

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Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...

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Making mistakes in centuries and generations past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore.

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As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the symbol for "opportunity."

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The age-old rhythm of the Earth's seasons — summer, fall, winter, and spring — is... changing as some parts of the world heat up more rapidly than others.

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Mistakes in our dealings with Mother Nature can now have much larger uninednded consequences, because many of our new technologies confer upon us new power without automatically giving us new wisdom.

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