Al Gore quotes on Solar Energy
Here Al Gore talks about how long we should wait to transition to energy sources like solar panels:
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.”
“Meet the Press” with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. July 20, 2008.
If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.”
“What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?”. Interview With John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.
Al Gore on the unlimited power of solar energy:
“Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.”
Al Gore (2009). “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, Rodale Books
Solar power can create jobs and stimulate the economy:
“The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can’t be outsourced.”
“”What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?””. Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.
Who is causing the transition to solar to be delayed, according to Al Gore:
“The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth’s atmosphere every hour of every day.”
Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.263, Rodale
Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.”
Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale
The wind and the sun are free.
“We’ve Arrived at a Moment of Decision”. www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2009.
Solar energy saves lives:
“The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels… If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest disaster so far in human history, saving millions of lives while improving billions more. If we fail, basically it’s business as usual while things slowly get worse all around us.”
“An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore”. Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. May 10, 2006.
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.”
“Meet the Press” with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. July 20, 2008.
The cumulative amount of man-made global pollution that’s in the atmosphere now traps as much extra heat energy every day as would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day. It’s a big planet, but that’s an awful lot of energy.”
Source: www.businessinsider.com