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Al Gore to UVM: I知 Optimistic About Stopping Climate Change
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=news&storyID=21550&category=four_sq[font face=Serif][font size=5]Al Gore to UVM: I’m Optimistic About Stopping Climate Change[/font]
10-06-2015
By Joshua E. Brown
[font size=4]Usually, climate change activists use melting ice as a sign of approaching trouble. Not Al Gore.[/font]
[font size=3]Speaking to more than a thousand people—packed into UVM’s Ira Allen Chapel and watching remotely at Mann Hall—the former US vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner took the opposite metaphor. “It’s just one degree of difference between water and ice,” he said—and the same is true of markets, he said. The cost of solar panels, advanced batteries, and other renewable-energy technologies has reached a melting point, Gore said, where they are becoming cheaper than fossil fuels.
“The difference between ‘more expensive than’ and ‘cheaper than’ is markets that are frozen up and markets that are liquid with investments flowing toward the new, more attractive alternative,” Gore said on Tuesday morning.
And in that fundamental shift in economics, Gore told his audience, there is cause for hope about solving the problems of global warming.
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10-06-2015
By Joshua E. Brown
[font size=4]Usually, climate change activists use melting ice as a sign of approaching trouble. Not Al Gore.[/font]
[font size=3]Speaking to more than a thousand people—packed into UVM’s Ira Allen Chapel and watching remotely at Mann Hall—the former US vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner took the opposite metaphor. “It’s just one degree of difference between water and ice,” he said—and the same is true of markets, he said. The cost of solar panels, advanced batteries, and other renewable-energy technologies has reached a melting point, Gore said, where they are becoming cheaper than fossil fuels.
“The difference between ‘more expensive than’ and ‘cheaper than’ is markets that are frozen up and markets that are liquid with investments flowing toward the new, more attractive alternative,” Gore said on Tuesday morning.
And in that fundamental shift in economics, Gore told his audience, there is cause for hope about solving the problems of global warming.
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