Former Vice President and one-time presidential candidate Al Gore stated that as many as one billion people may become refugees due to climate change unless extreme environmentalist policies are adopted.
Gore made the comment during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper. He was invited on to discuss climate change and the recent COP28 UN summit in the United Arab Emirates.
Tapper asked Gore what would happen if we fail to “act” and lower global temperatures. Gore responded:
“The scientists who warned us of these megastorms, and the floods, and mudslides, and droughts, and the ice melting, and the sea level rising, and the storms getting stronger, and the tropical diseases, and climate migrants crossing international borders in larger numbers, they were dead right when they warned us about this. And so we need to pay more attention to them now. Here’s one thing they say. If we don’t take action, there could be as many as one billion climate refugees crossing international borders in the next several decades.”
He went on to warn about how this could contribute to the rise of right-wing extremism:
“Well a few million has contributed to this wave of populist authoritarianism and dictatorships and so forth. What would a billion do? We can’t do this. We could lose our capacity for self-governance.”
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Gore explained that weather changes will cause people to flee their homes due to them being “physiologically unlivable.” While only small pockets of the world have experienced climate migration, he predicted that will expand to “most of India,” large swaths of “South America,” The Philippines, and Pakistan and others.
On the bright side, Gore said, “we still have the ability to seize our destiny” and implement policies that will significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases being emitted into the atmosphere. This, however, will take political “courage” and “grassroots pressure.”
Gore noted that “solar electricity and wind electricity” would contribute to solving the climate crisis, but, as The Daily Wire pointed out, made no mention of nuclear energy.
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Gore cited a CNN poll that allegedly showed 76 percent of Independents and more than half of Republicans support actions to tackle climate change. “We just have to break the political power that the fossil fuel industry has exerted with its fixers and its lobbyists and its bags of money and its revolving door of colleagues. But we can do this Jake, we can do it,” he concluded.
This is not the first time Gore has made headlines in recent weeks. During the COP28 Conference, Gore compared social media platforms to assault rifles and called for the regulation of algorithms.
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