- Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:27 pm
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The former vice president used his speech at Cannes to call on the ad and creative world to help him in his fight against climate change, while promoting his new London company Generation Investment Management. When asked about climate deniers, Gore said it was a campaign run by polluters and compared their actions to the tobacco industry, which employed actors posing as doctors to reassure consumers that smoking was safe: “It was deeply unethical, immoral, destructive, really evil, and that is exactly what the climate denial industry is doing.”What a do do head! :shock:
Gore believes global warming would be a big issue at the next election: “The age of fossil fuels is beginning to end … years ago a Saudi minister once said, ‘The stone age didn’t end because of a shortage of stones.’”he blasted lobbyists and special interests for blocking reform: “American democracy has been hacked … the US became the world’s leader by making better decisions than any other nation … the role of money really degraded the decision-making quality in the US.
“Big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform in the public interest, it really pains me to say … That has had a cascading impact on the ability of the US to continue providing the thought leadership to the world as a whole.
“It is urgent not only for the interests of the US but for the future of humankind … that the US find ways to quickly restore its ability to make decisions based on its best values and to limit the corrupting impact and degrading impact of lobbying and campaign contributions. It has to stop being about money, after all how much money does one person need?”
There were also laughs when Gore talked about his $14 billion venture capital firm Generation Investment Management, founded in London with David Blood, and Sorrell asked, “You weren’t going to call it Blood and Gore, were you?”
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