"Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.“


-Al Gore

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Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

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