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In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

Al Gore
Order, Democracy, Climate
"Year Four at SilverDocs: Gore, Scorsese, Jarmusch, Premieres, and More". www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2006.

A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.

Al Gore
Democracy, Immune System, Representatives
"In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

Al Gore
Ideas, Democracy, Environment
"In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

If you look at the way all of the new reform movements dedicated to the public interest are living and thriving on the Internet, I do think there is still some considerable hope that the full participation of individuals in that conversation of democracy can once again restore the integrity of the way our democracy works.

Al Gore
Integrity, Thinking, Democracy
Source: www.pbs.org

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Al Gore
Democracy, Vote, Never Forget
2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 26 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

In the age of the internet, with all of its problems, over time, the very fact that individuals can join the conversation creates the opportunity for the emergence of - for the re-emergence of a genuine conversation of democracy.

Al Gore
Opportunity, Democracy, Age
"In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "Morning Edition" with Audie Cornish, wksu.org. March 14, 2017.

American democracy has been hacked.

Al Gore
Democracies Have, Democracy, Hacked
Al Gore (2017). “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis”, p.182, Rodale

For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and are not corrected by the so-called immune system of democracy, a free press and a free democratic discourse.

Al Gore
America, Democracy, Serious
Source: www.pbs.org

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