"At some point I will fully depreciate that line—namely 'I
used to be the next president of the US'."
"This roller coaster is heading towards a crash and we are in the front car."
"Each one meter of sea level rise means 100 Million climate refugees."
"We are locked in a way of thinking about the grid, as large centralized generation... the world is passing that model by."
"The economists have a word - externalities, which basically means 'forget about it' so no wonder its hard to price carbon."
"The smart gird is connected to all threads of the crisis. The Smart Grid will empower an new set of devices, (many) not even invented yet."
"It requires a 1000mw power plant just to power the televisions that are turned off in the US."
"We will soon live in an era where the use of the internet by things (smart devices) will eclipse the use of the internet by people. For every man, woman and child on earth (there are 5.6B) there are, or soon will be 1B transistors."
"The single largest solution is energy efficiency… The transition to green tech clean tech is a jobs initiative. We can 2.5M new jobs just for retrofitting—jobs that can’t be outsourced."
"The odds of us encountering a leopard as we leave today are pretty small. But the odds of encountering the climate crisis are 100%."
"The builders of the great cathedrals of Europe stayed on task across generations. We have that capacity..."
~ Al Gore, Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
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