I actually took another look again at Inconvenient Truth and the sequel. The interesting thing is, i thought about something that dr. King said. About the impacts happening. Sometimes we silo and segregate ourselves. Were coming up on the 12th anniversary of katrina, august 29th. I was there on the ground. We also places like north carolina, princeville. African slaves, just had a 100year flood. And a place in south carolina, same thing. Movie so important . T this moment in time mr. Gore i want to join you in banking and knowledge in all the speakers that came before. Dolores and gerald and tom stier, who gave such a wonderful address and pamela. I want to thank eric and mary highend the entire net roots nation. For doing a wonderful job. Thanks to all of you. Applause] mr. Gore the work that you have done for so many years actually way to answer the question you just asked, because Environmental Justice and Climate Justice is a cause that connects what we are doing to the environment and the climate and the prejudice and the insults that people, communities of color, communities of low income. Why . Because they have less means to defend themselves when people want to locate a new Hazardous Waste site or they are looking where the downwind places for some terrible diluting facility. This has been going on for a long time. What we are now seeing is the growth of the same issue on a today we willasis manmadeillion tons of pollution in the sky. You talk about violence. Violence is not just a metaphor. It is that, too. At this kills people. It hurts people. Of theircal amount traps as my cheap energy of their everyday as would the released by 400,000 hiroshima class atomic arms exploding every 24 hours on this planet. And it is a big planet but that is in a amount of energy and it is radically transforming the ecological system of the earth. Not just raising temperatures, which by the way in some regions of the earth are themselves in dire threat. There was a he index in a city in a ram there was a heat not too a city in iran long ago that no one could live 48 hours. R you talk about bombs, last week both new orleans and another city were flooded out and paralyzed, not just by the ocean although the sea level intermediate this time. But so much of the oceans water vapor is being boiled into the sky that when it comes of the historicget these downpours. Seven inches and two hours in miami a week ago tuesday. Nine inches and 12 hours in new orleans. In both cities, the pumps holding the oceans that they fail because of the event and both cities work paralyzed. There are many such events all over the worlds on a regular basis. Newsook of revelation, the media often does not connect the dots but individuals are beginning to and we must. Because heres what is at stake. The large carbon polluters feel to useey have a right the sky as an open sewer. And, they want to continue using the sky as a similar for as long thesky as a similar if they sewer for fun can. This is a problem because those in not as wealthy nations cannot defend themselves as well, sometimes not at all. Just as an Environmental Justice focuses our attention on the violence inflicted on those who are disadvantaged, this large pattern that is now global is inflicting violence that is halted. Nd must be at the carbon polluters are using the same techniques as the Tobacco Companies used years ago. Do you remember when the doctors made it clear that smoking cigarettes causes lung cancer and other diseases . They hired actors and dress them up as doctors and put them in front of a camera to falsely reassure people there was no help problem. Problems. Th 100 Million People died before we got over those deceptions. Large carbon polluters are using the exact same playbook. They have hired many of the exact same pr agents and they are trying to full people to the point where it is in capable of the political system to respond. Theoots nations embodies awakening of a new consciousness that has to spread all across that wentry to demand do go back to a government of the people and by the people and for the people. Coupleet me ask a questions. Newyou talk about this awakening happening. I agree with you on that. You know, we had the womens march. We had the science march. We had the peoples climate march. How important are those moments that are part of a movement and moving us forward to be able to address these issues . Mr. Gore it is crucial. One of the lessons that net roots nation has taught us is connecting to one another on the internet is extremely important, but we have to connect in person as well. Because that is where the deep ties, that can build the commitment necessary to keep the and to ultimately prevail host further. E this a step we have an administration that does not feel sciences valuable. I saw science all throughout both of the movies can you talk about how important it is and how we can begin to translate science into every day language or mr. Mrs. Romeros johnson, who i often speak about, feel the connection in that space . Mr. Gore the phrase speak truth to power embodies the essential formula youre getting at. The truth that the scientists have worked real hard to find out and double check and triple check and verify with their observations in the real world, the truth is still inconvenient for the carbon polluters and the politicians, that they totally control lock, stock, and oil barrel. They want to hide, destroyed, confuse, distract, so that what andan see with our own eyes experience with our own senses and learn about with our reasoning capacity cannot be effectively used as a source of lyrical power. Beallnt money to be the endall of political powder. Power. Our political system was hacked before Vladimir Putin hacked our political democracy. We need to take it back. [applause] libby me say word about the Bernie Sanders campaign will stop i dont want to get into the agenda or issues. I want to make a simple point about what he and those working for him proved last year. We have reached the point now with internetbased and social mediabased communications and grassroots organizations to where finally it is now possible to run an effective and potentially victorious campaign without accepting any money from fatcat ilya narrows or specialinterest lobbyists. But just get it from the people, from the internet. Let me tell you one other thing on that. [applause] mr. Gore i went to the comments. I am old. I am old. In my mind, im not. In my mind, i am younger and dinner and have dark here. Congress into the the mid1970s and i watched this change when television became these awful 32nd commercials, all of them negative practically. I watch the behavior of elected representatives of the people change radically. Most of you know what goes on now. The average elected representative in the congress, house, and senate do know what they do all day . They spend an average of five hours every single day begging special interest and lobbyists and fatcats for money. Do . Does i it is a question of human nature. Founders were humanists. They understood human nature with crystal clarity. , thethat does to them people that are supposed to be representing us, and god bless those who are steadfast in spite of all this. But what it does to many of them as they begin to naturally think about the impact of what they say and do not on the people they are supposed to be serving, they began to think more and more and more about the impact on those telephone calls the next day making special interests and fatcats and lobbyists. Theyre leading the fatcats and lobbyists and and theynterests right take it straight from the special interests and lobbyists and say, here is my bill. It is not their bill. It is a specialinterest the got egg degree of control that is toxic. Ita to grace of what is a disgrace to what american democracy is supposed to be take itd we need to back. [cheers and applause] host as i was Walking Around the last couple days, folks came up and said, we know you are going to be blessed to be on exVice President and i have a couple questions. The first one is a twofor. One is around the paris time it agreement. The others round the Clean Power Plant. Administrationt not giving value to those spaces. It meanshare, what does when we have an administration that moves away from the paris climate agreement and if the Clean Power Plan is not kept do we do in those spaces . Mr. Gore extremely important question and i will tell you that when donald trump made his speech on june 1 announcing that the u. S. Ing to pull out of the Paris Agreement, i was very concerned. For one thing, that some other countries might use that as an excuse to pull out themselves. For another thing, that is it might paralyze the will power and cities and businesses and Civil Society here. But i will tell you that the and my faith, tradition says joy cometh in the morning the news came that world had rest of the renewed their faith in the Paris Agreement as if to say we will show you, donald trump. Applause] mr. Gore and the governor of our largest state and hundreds of mayors of cities and a lot of Business Leaders who have made these commitments, theyll double down and said we are going to meet the Paris Agreement regardless of what donald trump says. In his speech youll recall he said, i was elected to represent pittsburgh, not harass. And the next day the mirror pittsburgh said, we are going to go with the Paris Agreement. It now looks as if the United States of america is very likely to meet the commitments made by former president obama under the Paris Agreement regardless of what donald trump does. Another detail, a lot of people dont know this. The weight of harass agreement was written and this is not entirely coincidence the first day upon which it is legal for the u. S. To be with john happens to be the day after the next president ial election, 2020. [cheers and applause] host yes mr. Gore and if we have a new president excuse me a minute [applause] president and a new could simply say, were back in. You ask about the Clean Power Plan, that is another thing. I dont want to give the impression that donald trump is not capable of doing a lot of damage. He has. He has surrounded himself with a deniersdre of climate beholden to large companies. They are secretly trying to take everything they can, fire the scientist, get rid of any regulations they cant will stop but the good news is, this train has left the station and what i cost ofthat is, the electricity from solar and wind is coming down so fast and now it has got its own momentum and the more of them they built, the more the cost comes down. Like the cars are now becoming way more affordable. Batteries are coming down. Leds, hundreds of efficiency technologies. The world is now in the early stages of a sustainable revolution that has the magnitude of the Industrial Revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. I fully believe it is unstoppable. This movie, by the way, tells the story in part of georgetown, texas. Described by their mayor as the most conservative in the mostity conservative republican county in texas and he is a donald trump supportive. Well, he was. He may still become my i do not know. I did not get into that with him. But he happens to be a Certified Public Accountant and he knows our arithmetic very well. He did the calculations and decided to completely convert that city to 100 solar and wind electricity and now their bill for electricity has come down. The air is cleaner, and it is kind of a side benefit that they are helping to save the future of humanity. Host yes. Ok. So, we heard the reverend earlier speak a little bit about morality. Do you feel the climate issue is a moral issue as well . Mr. Gore absolutely. At its heart, it shouldve never been a political or ideological issue. It is a militia, spiritual issue. Of course it is. On the other side of doing what is right is greed. Greed and the manipulation of facts to conceal the truth in order to distort what our democracy ought to be deciding, special to conserve the interests agenda. Now,it is not long from the next generation will ask one of two questions depending upon the decisions we make in this period. Diseasesave tropical breading northward, southward, if there is chaos and civil unrest because government cannot ever themselves in these conditions, it if there are stronger floods, deeper droughts, more powerful storms, melting ice, sea levels, all of that stuff. What would they think about what we did to leave them with that . That is a moral question and we would see it, if we had a time machine we could go into the future and be with them when they are asking, what in the world . Why . As i said on the screen, couldnt you hear what Mother Nature was screaming at you much less what the scientist found out . But there is another alternative. If they find themselves in a world with a full sense of renewal, with tens of millions of new jobs in sustainability solar jobs and the United States today are growing 17 times faster than all other jobs in the economy. The single fastestgrowing job is wind turbine technician. If we made a decision to put people to work in every community retrofitting buildings, residential, commercial, industrial to get due to wasteful construction and design, this cannot be outsourced or sent to some other country. We need to get our economy going in a healthy way providing good jobs. At the next generation lives in a world where that is going on againe climate is once growing, they can look at their kids at hand open their lives are going to be better. I want to have them look back at us in this time and ask this question, how could you find a moral courage and resolve to stand up and do what many said was impossible . Part of the answer to that question will be the Netroots Nation helped to lead the way all across the United States and we provided leadership and got it done. Cheers and applause] host i want to talk a little bit about the Climate Movement itself. What you just talked about was so important. I think it is important we begin to break down silos. That we begin to expand the base if were going to win on climate. I come from appellation. People find it are to believe. Westore you grew up in virginia. Host i surely did. How do we connect with folks in appellation who have maybe been in appellation in in the rust belt, in the bread basket of our country . How do we connect with them . Mr. Gore providing jobs for one thing. Telling the truth about what happened to them because the job loss in the coal industry came mainly because the Coal Companies mechanized heavily and replace labor with machines that sliced up the tops of the mountains and spoiled the beautiful landscape. You have seen it in your beautiful native west virginia. Then the fracking gas came artificially cheap and finished off what remained of that industry and then the people than on the Coal Companies turned around and said it was the environmentalists fault. No, it was not. That we have to go well beyond telling the truth about what happened and tell the truth and followup with an organized land to get them the better jobs that they deserve what the training and the opportunity. Look, we have a lot of work to do. You know very well this becomes kind of a cultural and political tribal type issue where people use the same phrases and if you do not use that phrase, you are in the other camp. Live got to bring it down. The good news is it is beginning to break down. Determined got to be about creating these new job opportunities. These coal miners that have lost their jobs, what do you feel about them . I know what most of you do and they and their families and previous generations really did help to build this country. They did not have any intention to create the climate crisis. They were fulfilling good jobs for good wages. It is not their fault they have now been left in this situation. We all have to Work Together impetus of selfgovernment great this new opportunity. Host right. Were going to talk about expanding the base. Awant to go back in time little bit. I do not know if anyone knows how instrumental you were in relationship with other stakeholder leaders in creating the Environmental Justice executive order. I am curious, if you could share with folks why you invested that capital because it is directly tied to the Climate Movement right now. And why vulnerable communities needed to be part of the mix, if you will. Mr. Gore i am proud of the roles that ive played and well before that executive order, i thought out with congressman ,ohn lewis from here in atlanta one of the greatest year as it is ever lived here in this country, john lewis and the house and myself and the senate, we introduce the first Environmental Justice bill that was ever introduced. Actually, that was in the first half of 1992. I had no thought at all that maybe what would happen later that year being on the ticket to be Vice President would happen. One year later, when bill clinton and i went into the white house, i convinced him which was pretty easy to do to set up this task force and that led to that Environmental Justice executive order and you were already in epa and you were the one who put it into effect and started the work. Has been at this a long time. [cheers and applause. Mustafa has been at this a long time. [applause] it did not just bring out of nowhere. As far back as 1982, north carolina, community of poverty and color welcome to the news that the powers that be had designed it to bring truckload after truckload of hazardous Chemical Waste and dump it right in their