Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph
Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph
Mr. Gore spoke at a climate leadership conference hosted by his nonprofit organization.
Just. Vote.
I recommend doing more than that
I distinctly remember the same sentiment in 2015 and 2016. Don't listen to what anything or anyone says. Just vote, and get people you know to vote, because Trump's supporters certainly will.
2016 wasn't due to voters failing to meet their obligation to vote for a warmonger that offered them nothing and whom they cannot influence, it was due to the democrats running a campaign of "American is already great" when most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and have very little reason to expect things to improve.
It's gonna repeat unless the democrats demonstrate that voting for them is worth missing a day's work.
Voting for them is worth it, if only not to have that psycho fascist known as Trump as your president.
this is bs. that was not at all the democratic message. It was a combo of the primary shanigans, treating it like a forgone conclusion (because trump winning is as crazy as britian leaving the EU), and trumps shotgun statements like around legalization. Granted I held my nose and voted but I know why he won. I hate all the idiots who resulted in his win, which to be clear I am talking about people who voted for him and not the stupid democrat elite bullshit. Its like. Oh yeah I will vote for the ressurected hitler or at least not vote for the democrat because that will show him. I mean its not like im going to have to live with the consequences of the election in the country I live.
Unfortunately, encouraging most of the people I know to vote would be counterproductive here
If Biden's son hadn't died I think he would have run in 16 and easily taken the nomination and victory
I don't know about that. I had no real opinion of biden until he was president and now I love him because im just agog at what he has accomplished in one term not even taking into account the political situation. I loved obama but he wasted a lot of time trying to compromise. I had a similar situation with pritzker as gov in illinois. Was not wild about him till he actually took office and now I love the guy.
Nothing Al Gore says is of any importance. Vote.
Oh no. Trump's gonna win.
Only if enough morons vote for him that the archaic electoral college allows him another win.
I believe Trump will lose but I’m not so sure about the other part. Democrats will only take action on climate change if it doesn’t impact capitalism. Capitalism can’t exist if we want to truly tackle Climate change.
The outcome isn't something that just happens; it's something we need to actively work for, whether that be defeating Trump or actually getting the world off fossil fuels.
Look, 30 years ago the trend in restaurants was to get the most exotic thing from the farthest reaches of the planet, and now the trend is hyper local.
Changes can happen.
I view our chances of appropriately managing climate change the way I do a 65 year old cigarette smoker that's smoked 2 packs a day for the past 5 decades.
It's absolutely possible for a 65 year old long-time smoker to change, repair much of the damage, and live many more healthy years. But by far the more likely outcome is that person smoking on their death bed.
But is he super cereal?
A.I. Gore? ... Technology is getting crazy nowadays
The circus that is holding up the compromised Republican party is the biggest story out there but nobody wants to cover it.
From corporate shit news to weak loser leaders, corrupt fucked up judges, to businesses nobody has ever heard of. There is a douchebag circus going on and it’s going to be hilarious when it completely fails when he loses.
The POLLS are GARBAGE. The massive amount of young people who absolutely hate their predecessors are coming to bring doom to the fascists. Their 50 year plan of fucking up the country is going to have a gnarly ending for them.
I got at least a bathtub full of popcorn waiting.
Al Gore is alive?
Why does he expect either of those things to happen? Biden barely won in 2020, lost in 2022, and we can expect lower voter turnout due to his party's inaction and malicious action.
As far as climate activists winning, they maintained Trump's tariff on cheap EVs, and are considering re-implementing his solar panel tarriff.
If Trump doesn't lose, everyone loses. Even Trump supporters will lose if he gets elected.
If Biden wins, climate activists will still lose. Milquetoast, middle of the road climate "action" from the Democratic party (and similar policies around the world) are why we have broken past every single warning sign that climate scientists have set.
The Kyoto Protocol did nothing, the Paris Agreement did nothing, emissions credits and electric cars (the only policies Biden is pushing) are objectively, scientifically not enough to even do America's part in slowing down climate change. If you think sitting back, doing nothing, and voting for 1 of 2 parties that don't take climate change seriously, once every 4 years, is going to save the world, I'll see you in hell.
Stupid shit from someone who hasn't followed any of the actual climate policy of the last few years.
Actual climate policy experts are basically unanimous that the IRA makes massive progress and buys desperately needed time. The 1.3 trillion in climate spending it represents is the most any governing body has ever done and it came from the goddamn USA somehow.
And more, by design if it exists long enough it will build constituency and become very sticky policy that will continue on a virtuous cycle. It doesn't get us all the way there but is the first real shot we've had in my lifetime.
Here we are, though. Actual, direct bothsides bullshit. Literally telling people not to bother voting. You signal clearly to the Democrats and any progressive groups that they shouldn't bother with climate because they can't win elections with it. They shouldn't even bother trying because literally doing nothing and spending none of the political capital would be exactly the same to you as any herculean effort. That hard won progress will be lost in the next cycle because it doesn't even exist if it's anything short of what, global socialist Revolution?
Fuck you so much seriously. You're every bit the uninformed voter that the maga people are.
Excellent summary, doomers are very susceptible to shilling and morbidity clickbait, so it's nice to see pushback. It's a great time to be optimistic about both the climate and (the continuing and necessary) potential future action on it.
Trump is bad for the environment and Biden is bad for the environment. The only thing that is sure is that climate activists will lose...
Trump is bad for the environment and Biden is bad for the environment.
They're not equally bad though. This is a case of not letting perfection be the enemy of the good.
not letting perfection be the enemy of the good
The Earth catching on fire and all life on it ceasing to exist, but 1 year later, is not "good".
If you think Biden is "good" on the environment, I suggest you read literally anything on Climate Change and see what scientists actually propose. Hint: Biden isn't even talking about doing any of them, let alone doing them.