Frasi di Al Gore
Al Gore
Data di nascita: 31. Marzo 1948
Albert Gore, all'anagrafe Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. , è un politico e ambientalista statunitense.
È stato il 45º Vicepresidente degli Stati Uniti d'America durante la presidenza di Bill Clinton. Gore è stato insignito del Premio Nobel per la pace 2007 e del Premio Principe delle Asturie per la Cooperazione Internazionale 2007 per il suo impegno in difesa dell'ambiente.
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Frasi Al Gore
— Al Gore, libro Earth in the Balance
Origine: Now warnings of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. But where is the moral alertness that might make us more sensitive to the new pattern of environmental change? Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence of an ecological Kristallnacht is as clear as the sound of glass shattering in Berlin. Da Earth in Balance: Healing the Global Environment, Routledge, 2013, p. 177 https://books.google.it/books?id=FYfcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA177. ISBN 1134038380
— Al Gore
Origine: Citato in Alessia Manfredi, Polemiche e battute, Internet entra in campagna elettorale http://www.repubblica.it/online/internet/polemica/polemica/polemica.html, Repubblica.it, 23 marzo 1999.
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Origine: Da una dichiarazione del 2009; citato in Chicco Testa (con Patrizia Feletig), Contro (la) natura, Marsilio Editore, Venezia, 2015, p. 93. ISBN 9787-88-317-1956-8
— Al Gore
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Referring here to the controversial US presidential election of 2000
Quotes, DNC Address (2004)
Contesto: I'm going to be candid with you. I had hoped to be back here this week under different circumstances, running for re-election. But you know the old saying: you win some, you lose some. And then there's that little-known third category.
But I didn't come here tonight to talk about the past. After all, I don't want you to think that I lie awake at night counting and recounting sheep. I prefer to focus on the future, because I know from my own experience that America's a land of opportunity, where every little boy and girl has a chance to grow up and win the popular vote.
— Al Gore
Testimony before Congress (21 March 2007), as quoted in "Gore Implores Congress To Save The Planet" at CBS Evening News (21 March 2007) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/21/politics/main2591104.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_2591104
— Al Gore
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Contesto: The disruption of the world's ecological systems — from the rise of global warming and the consequent damage to our climate balance, to the loss of living species and the depletion of ocean fisheries and forest habitats — continues at a frightening rate. Practically every day, it becomes clearer to us that must act now to protect our Earth, while preserving and creating jobs for our people.
And at the very same time that these threats are developing, the traditional nation-state itself is changing — as power moves upwards and downwards, to everything from supra-national organizations and coalitions all the way down to feuding clans. Susceptible to tyrants willing to exploit ethnic and religious rivalries, the weakest of these states have either imploded into civil war or threatened to lash out across their borders.
To meet these challenges requires cooperation on a scale not seen before. A realistic reading of the world today demands reinvigorated international and regional institutions. It demands that we confront threats before they spiral out of the control. And it requires American leadership — to protect our interests and uphold our values.
— Al Gore
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Contesto: I believe that now we have a profound responsibility to open the gates of opportunity for all the world's people so that they can become stakeholders in the kind of society we would like to build at large in the world and at home. Let me be clear: promoting prosperity throughout the world is a crucial form of forward engagement.
We know how to launch this renaissance — for what has worked to spark the economic boom here in the United States is, at its essence, the way we can spark the fires of growth abroad. The difference is one of degree, not kind.
— Al Gore
Quotes, NYU Law School speech (2006)
Contesto: For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes — including those for social security and unemployment compensation — and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes — principally on CO2. The overall level of taxation would remain exactly the same. It would be, in other words, a revenue neutral tax swap. But, instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees, it would discourage business from producing more pollution.
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't need to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.
And sure enough, when it's not recognized in the marketplace, it does make it much easier for government, business, and all the rest of us to pretend that it doesn't exist. But what we're pretending doesn't exist is the stuff that is destroying the habitability of the planet.
