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Climate training with Al Gore: learning from the best | The Vancouver Observer

On the first day in Chicago, we were asked to reflect on our own story: what was the path that we took to get to being in Chicago, doing climate leadership training and working on climate change? What was the point at which you realized that solving climate change is the most important thing – and that nothing else matters if we don’t fix this?
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Gore also told us about how it’s important to use memorable images to help the facts stick in our minds – like the iconic ‘bushfire koala’ picture from Australia in 2009 after the Black Saturday bushfires ravaged my home state of Victoria
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He talked about how democracy is being hacked by special interests in the USA right now, about the need for a price on carbon to jump start emissions reductions, about natural gas and the need to be careful that a ‘bridge fuel’ doesn’t become a climate gangplank.
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He had us all in tears talking about how we have to come to terms with potentially losing the things we love about this planet

Twitter / algore: "The struggle of today, is ...

"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for the vast future also."- Lincoln. The climate crisis is our greatest challenge.

Twitter / m4gw: @algore I don't know about ...

@algore I don't know about that. I'm sitting outside and it's very comfortable.