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Albert Arnold Gore
(31 Mar 1948 - )
American statesman and vice president who after two terms as 45th U.S. Vice President became active in raising awareness of climate change and its effects. He was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for these efforts.
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Science Quotes by Albert Arnold Gore (5)
Any child born into the hugely consumptionist way of life so common in the industrial world will have an impact that is, on average, many times more destructive than that of a child born in the developing world.
— Albert Arnold Gore
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (2006), 308.
See also: | Population (18)
Of all the works of civilization that interfere with the natural water distribution system, irrigation has been by far the most pervasive and powerful. (1992)
— Albert Arnold Gore
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (2006), 111.
See also: | Irrigation (2)
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.
— Albert Arnold Gore
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (2006), 107.
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.
— Albert Arnold Gore
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (2006), 37.
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
Comment on the failed launch of an unmanned rocket, only a short time after the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger.
Comment on the failed launch of an unmanned rocket, only a short time after the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger.
— Albert Arnold Gore
ABC television interview, Nightline (5 May 1986). In James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988).
