The last sentence must be recorded

Marques 2022-11-23 17:09:30

Fanned by Al Gore, the last words are to be excerpted: This movement to solve the climate crisis is in the tradition of every great moral movement that has advanced the cause of humankind. And every single one of them has met with resistance to the point where many of the advocates felt despair and wondered, “How long is this gonna take?” Martin Luther King famously answered a question during some of the bleakest hours of the Civil Right Movements, when someone asked, “How long is this gonna take?” He said, “How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long. Because the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. How long? Not long. We are close to this movement. We are very close to the tipping point beyond which this movement, like the abolition movement.. is resolved into a choice between right and wrong.And because of who we are as human beings, the outcome is foreordained. And it is right to save the future for humanity.

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  • Mr. Narendra Modi (PM of India): [at COP21] Democratic India must grow rapidly to meet the aspirations of 1.25 billion people 300 million of whom are without access to energy. Energy is a basic human need. There should be no place for unilateral steps that become economic barriers for others. So, we still need conventional energy, fossil fuel. And anything else will be morally wrong.

  • Al Gore: Ten years ago, when the movie An Inconvenient Truth came out, the single most criticised scene in that movie was an animated scene showing that the combination of sea level rise and storm surge would put the ocean water into the 9/11 memorial site, which was then under construction.