Al Gore: climate change threat leaves 'no time to despair' over Trump victory

[Donkees]

Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Monday 5 December 2016


Excerpt:

The urgent threat of climate change means there is “no time to despair” over the election of Donald Trump, according to former vice-president Al Gore, who hopes that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will join an escalated climate campaign against the president-elect. Gore told the Guardian he remained hopeful Trump would reverse some of his positions on climate change but predicted an unprecedented backlash from environmentalists over the next four years.

Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, has pledged to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord, dismantle the Clean Power Plan, slash renewable energy funding and somehow prop up the ailing US coal industry. His advisers have also advocated cutting climate research at Nasa and completely exiting the international climate effort.

Gore said such threats mean there will “likely be a huge upsurge in climate activism. I’m encouraged that there are groups that are digging in to work even harder. Those groups working in the courts are even more important now; those organizing on campuses are even more important now.

“My message would be that despair is just another form of denial. There is no time to despair. We don’t have time to lick our wounds, to hope for a different election outcome.

“We have to win this struggle and we will win it; the only question is how fast we win. But more damaged is baked into the climate system every day, so it’s a race against time.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/05/al-gore-climate-change-threat-leaves-no-time-to-despair-over-trump-victory

[flamingdem]

1. Gore buying into a stolen election?

[marybourg]

2. He's facing facts and doing what

has to be done for his issue. He's not endorsing tRump.

[longship]

4. Sorry. I am not buying your narrative on Gore.

Let alone the stolen election conspiracy theory one. Wasn't that one of Drumpf's narratives when he thought he would lose?

There will be no reversal of this election. MI has all paper ballots, pretty much rig-proof. The gap in PA is in the tens of thousands, pretty much rig-proof even with voting machines.

I support the recounts, however recognizing that Drumpf's election is basically a done deal.

We now need to organize our opposition for the next four years. Screeching rigged election now does not help us anymore than when Drumpf was screeching it. And Greg Palast can go to Hell. He sees rigged elections every time a Democrat loses, not a good sign.

[TwilightZone]

3. He's exactly right.

Complaining or fretting about it would just waste time, time the issue of climate change doesn't have. The next couple months could be crucial in the court of public opinion.

[Arazi]

5. Good. We have no more time to waste