An Inconvenient Truth (2006) - Quotes

Collaborative Efforts to Address Our Challenges

Taglines: We work together to fix the problem we created

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Thin Ice Reminder for Collective Action

Taglines: We're all on thin ice.

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The Truth Can Be Frightening

Taglines: Nothing is scarier than the truth.

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A Call to Address Climate Change

Taglines: A Global Warning

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The Most Terrifying Film Experience Yet

Taglines: By far the most terrifying film you will ever see.

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Responsibility to Future Generations

Quotes: Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

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Our Fragile Home: A Call to Action

Quotes: You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars, all the famines, all the major advances.... It's our only home. And that is what is at stake: our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue. It is your time to seize this issue; it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

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Renewable Political Will in America

Quotes: We have everything, save perhaps political will. But in America, I believe political will is a renewable resource.

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Moral Responsibility Beyond Political Boundaries

Quotes: Ultimately, this is really not a political issue so much as a moral issue. If we allow that to happen, it'd be deeply unethical.

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Rediscovering Nature's Peaceful Moments

Quotes: You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It’s quiet; it’s peaceful. And all of a sudden, it’s a gear shift inside you. And it’s like taking a deep breath and going, "Oh yeah, I forgot about this.

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A Call to Address Moral Responsibilities

Quotes: I believe this is a moral issue. It is your time to seize this issue. It is our time to rise again, to secure our future.

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Renewable Political Will for Change

Quotes: We have everything we need, save perhaps, political will. But, you know what ... political will is a renewable resource. ... The solutions are in our hands. We just have to have the determination to make them happen.

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Overcoming Obstacles to Clear Communication

Quotes: I guess the thing I've spent more time on than anything else in this slide show is trying to identify all those things in people's minds that serve as obstacles to them understanding this. And whenever I feel like I've identified an obstacle I try to take it apart, roll it away, move it, demolish it, blow it up. I've set myself a goal: communicate this real clearly. The only way I know to do it is city by city, person by person, family by family, and I have faith that pretty soon that enough minds are changed that we cross a threshold.

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Misconceptions About Climate Change Reality

Quotes: [[scientists] There are three misconceptions in particular that bedevil our thinking. The first: isn't there a disagreement among ] as to whether the problem is real or not? Actually... not really.

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The Urgency of Understanding Connections

Quotes: It's just human nature to take time to connect the dots. I know that. But I also know there can be a day of reckoning, when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

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Awareness of Gradual Dangers Requires Urgency

Quotes: It takes a sudden jolt sometimes for us to become aware of a danger. If it seems gradual, even if it really is happening quickly, we're capable of just sitting there and not responding, and not reacting.

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Rethinking War in the Age of Technology

Quotes: We have to think differently about war. Because the new technologies so completely transform the consequences of that old habit that we can't just mindlessly continue the patterns of the past.

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Impact of Habits and Technology on Consequences

Quotes: Old Habits plus Old Technology have predictable consequences. Old Habits, that are hard to change, plus New Technology can have dramatically altered consequences.

Consequences of Past Mistakes in Today's World

Quotes: Making mistakes in centuries and generations past would have consequences that we could overcome. We don't have that luxury anymore.

The Complexity of Progress and Setbacks

Quotes: The struggles, the victories that aren't really victories, the defeats that aren't really defeats, they can serve to magnify the significance of some trivial step forward, exaggerate the seeming importance of some massive setback.

First Earth Images from Apollo 8 Mission

Quotes: * On the first pictures of the Earth as a full globe taken by the Apollo 8 crew.

The Impact of Earthrise on Environmental Awareness

Quotes: They looked up and they snapped this picture, and it became known as "Earthrise" And that one picture exploded in the consciousness of humankind. It led to dramatic changes. Within 18 months of this picture being taken the modern environmental movement had begun.

The Challenge of Acknowledging Climate Change

Quotes: There are good people, who are in politics — in both parties — who hold this at arm's length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable.