Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
Al GoreWe have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.
Al GoreFuture 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.
Al GoreEventually we'll use a CO2 tax offset by a reduction in taxes elsewhere alongside a cap-and-trade plan, but the degree of difficulty associated with a CO2 tax far exceeds that with a cap-and-trade plan. We're seeing it's hard to get a cap-and-trade plan and it's much easier to use as a basis for a global agreement than a CO2 tax.
Al Gore