Posted on 05/05/2016 10:22:42 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
(CNSNews.com) – Former Vice President Al Gore said on Thursday that solving what he called the “climate crisis” would not only help the U.S. and global economy but could save civilization itself.
Speaking at the Climate Action 2016 summit in Washington, D.C., Gore said the “Number One threat to the global economy is the climate crisis,” which also threatens the U.S. economy, and that turning that around requires investment in the right kind of infrastructure here and abroad.
In the United States, Gore called for “physical stimulus in a coordinated way aimed at infrastructure that the country needs, which means de-carbonization, renewable energy, batteries, energy storage, sustainable forestry, sustainable agriculture.”
“This is the opportunity to save the economy and a side benefit would be to save the future of civilization,” Gore said.
Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, also spoke at the event and called climate change an “urgent issue.”
She said leaders should look to communities that are tackling climate change, such as New Orleans, which is losing “a football field” of land on an hourly basis.
“So often we find the best solutions, the truly breakthrough – kind of groundbreaking innovations – are already at work in some communities somewhere in the world,” Rodin said.
“For example, the city of New Orleans is working to restore their bayous, their wetlands triangle, which are very vulnerable by rebuilding critical areas of the coast that are subject to coastal erosion and reducing economic activity, as well as the well-being of their population,” Rodin said.
“This is an urgent issue,” she said. “Think about this.”
“Louisiana is losing a football field of land every hour,” Rodin said.
The two-day summit [1], which ends Friday, May 6, is being staged to press for global compliance with the climate change agreement signed by 174 countries and the European Union in December in Paris.
Three members of the Obama Cabinet are scheduled to speak on Friday, including Shaun Donovan, director of the Office of Management and Budget, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, and Tom Vilsack, Agriculture secretary.
I thought we were all supposed to be dead by now ? Wasn’t armegeddon awhile ago?
Who woke old Al up out of his 5th chakra slumber ?
“She said leaders should look to communities that are tackling climate change, such as New Orleans, which is losing “a football field” of land on an hourly basis. “
These hacks will say anything.
Here we go with Louisiana again....our public education system has created a nation of idiots....Horace Mann would commit suicide if he were still alive.
“For example, the city of New Orleans is working to restore their bayous, their wetlands triangle, which are very vulnerable by rebuilding critical areas of the coast that are subject to coastal erosion and reducing economic activity, as well as the well-being of their population,” Rodin said. “
Whut?
Does anybody recall the Freeper that had questions about concealed carry as he was going down to New Orleans this summer? He should probably be told to move his trip up before the whole place disappears.
Delusions, delusions.
“This is the opportunity to save the economy and a side benefit would be to save the future of civilization,” Gore said.
Even if we say for sake of argument that global warming is happening, is it really the biggest threat to civilization there is??? For example, couldn’t we say ISIS and Muslim terrorism in general, is a greater immediate threat to civilization as we know it, than the nebulous future threats of global warming?????
I am just flabbergasted how anyone listens yet alone acts upon anything that comes out of that idiots mouth.
She said leaders should look to communities that are tackling climate change, such as New Orleans, which is losing “a football field” of land on an hourly basis.
“So often we find the best solutions, the truly breakthrough – kind of groundbreaking innovations – are already at work in some communities somewhere in the world,” Rodin said.
“For example, the city of New Orleans is working to restore their bayous, their wetlands triangle, which are very vulnerable by rebuilding critical areas of the coast that are subject to coastal erosion and reducing economic activity, as well as the well-being of their population,” Rodin said.
What a bunch of crap. Erosion has nothing to do with climate change.
Mo, Al, you and your ilk are civilization’s death.
Thank goodness he never became president.
What civilizations? Islamic? Subsahara? Communist Chinese?
He wants us to solve the weather?
Insane. This civilization has no future as long as governments keep arming themselves with nuclear weapons. Those are the actual real threat. Warming is beneficial. Just ask Farmers in Austria who were recently wiped out by late spring freezes. Those Farmers are lucky though. Their government is solvent and has pledged to come to their rescue, unlike our government.
Anyone other than a deranged liberal would have the awarareness to remain silent, out of public view to avoid humiliation.........
To really ruin your sleep, recall how desperately the democrats wanted him for president, and how close he came..........
ManBearPig is still baying at the Moon in deNile River.
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