Gore on Trump

Thank you Robert Reich for bringing forward the text of this important Al Gore speech,
from last week, the week of Earth Day .

SNIPPETS
"It is abundantly clear, after only three months and one day, that the new Trump administration is attempting to do everything it possibly can to try to halt the transition to a clean energy future and a deep reduction in the burning of fossil fuels. The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis, basically 80% of it...

"...The Dow Jones, of course, today fell another thousand points and since Donald Trump’s inauguration it’s gone down six thousand points. But while the most visible impacts of what the new administration is doing may be in the market for stocks and bonds, that’s not the only thing that he has caused to crash.

The trust market has crashed.

The market for democracy has taken a major hit.

Hope is being arbitraged in the growing market for fear.

Truth has been devalued and confidence in U.S. leadership around the world has plummeted.

We are facing a national emergency for our democracy
and a global emergency for our climate system...."

FULL TEXT (long preamble of thank yous, etc. before he really starts the speech
https://algore.com/news/remarks-by-former-vice-president-al-gore-at-san-francisco-climate-week-2025