Don't get me wrong, I was still immensely depressed reading the thing. But with every bad thing Gore talks about he also shows the way out. The hardest thing to realise is just how entrenched our way of life is. How our economy is based on extraction, destruction and pollution.
But it can all be fixed. My god! The opportunity to reinvent our way of life is right in front of us. It is all low-hanging fruit.
The book opened my eyes to the difficulties of making change but I can still exert influence in the consumer choices I make every day. As an example, if people start buying electric cars, manufacturers will begin to build them. But what of the electricity from the coal-fired power plants? Well that's another story altogether isn't it? Those utilities have influence in the government and their profits are based on a pollution model. That's where putting a price on pollution (a carbon tax) comes into play. A big reason we pollute is because it is free to do so.
The amount of jobs we could create, building an economy that is in tune with our environment, is staggering to consider.
This was a wonderful book and I am very glad I had the opportunity to engage with it.
Al Gore's website - https://www.algore.com/
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