I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
—Kurt Vonnegut

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
—Kurt Vonnegut

The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.
—Al Gore

We could have saved the Earth, but we were too damned cheap.
—Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (2014)

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.
—Al Gore

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
—Al Gore

The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.
—Al Gore

The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need; more are being developed. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.
—Al Gore

We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home Earth is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.
—Al Gore

Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now, the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.
—Al Gore

Future 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 Gore