hi I'm Al Gore and I'm doing a wired
auto-complete interview I work on
solving the climate crisis okay is
climate change
urgent yes extremely urgent these
extreme weather events are becoming much
more frequent just in the last eight
years in the US we've had ten so-called
once in a thousand year events is
climate change
scientific fact well the scientists tell
us that is they have known the basics of
this for 150 years and they say that
it's as established as like gravity is
climate change reversible we have
already caused some damage some of which
is not reversible but here's the key
fact the truly catastrophic consequences
of global warming can still be prevented
okay is climate change political some of
the large carbon polluters have been
pumping a lots of money into lobbying
and campaign contributions and that has
made it political in a way that's that
it's not in any other country is climate
change being stopped no not yet but like
a lot of other social revolutions in the
past the abolition of slavery getting
women the right to vote civil rights
movement all of these movements have
seemed like they would never succeed at
times but then when the central question
became clear a choice between what's
clearly right and what's clearly wrong
then the change started really speeding
up that's the point we're at in the
climate movement