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kpete

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Sun Feb 23, 2014, 11:28 AM Feb 2014

Al Gore On Climate Change: “The one missing ingredient may well be you, no kidding”

Al Gore brings climate change message to Kansas City
February 22
BY BRIAN BURNES
The Kansas City Star

Al Gore has been known for his climate change warnings since the 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.”


SUSAN PFANNMULLER | SPECIAL TO THE STAR
Former vice president Al Gore spoke about climate change Saturday during the Folk Alliance International conference at the Westin Crown Center hotel.

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Gore conceded the possible fatigue some may have with his warnings, as well as the possible sense of powerlessness as to what any one individual can do to affect what appear to be vast, unchangeable trends.

“Do we really have to do this and — if the answer is yes — can we do it?” Gore said, repeating two questions he routinely hears.

“The answer to both of those questions — spoiler alert — is ‘yes.’ ”


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He urged his listeners to act on an individual basis.

“The one missing ingredient may well be you, no kidding,” he said.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/22/4843012/al-gore-brings-climate-change.html#storylink=cpy
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Al Gore On Climate Change: “The one missing ingredient may well be you, no kidding” (Original Post) kpete Feb 2014 OP
I don't think many people outside RW la la land nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #1
 

nadinbrzezinski

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1. I don't think many people outside RW la la land
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 11:38 AM
Feb 2014

Continue to make fun of it. The problem is some of those are very powerful if stuck in right wind denial land

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