I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable...that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

We all know the leopard can't change his stripes.

We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many.

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.