Name: The new urgency of climate change | Al Gore
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it seems a lifetime ago, but it really was just six months ago --

climate seemed to be on the lips of every thinking person on the planet.

Recent events seem to have swept it all away from our attention.

Al Gore: Well, first of all Chris, thank you so much for inviting me

in the midst of these other great challenges

One reason is something that you mentioned.

People get the fact that when scientists are warning us

and setting their hair on fire, so to speak,

it's best to listen to what they're saying,

and I think that lesson has begun to sink in in a new way.

is that the climate crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic,

the shocking injustices and inequalities and disparities

The climate crisis has effects that are not measured in years,

but consequences that are measured in centuries and even longer.

And the other difference is that instead of depressing economic activity

as nations around the world have had to do with COVID-19,

we have the opportunity to create tens of millions of new jobs.

the fastest-growing job in the US has been solar installer.

The second-fastest has been wind turbine technician.

And the "Oxford Review of Economics," just a few weeks ago,

pointed the way to a very jobs-rich recovery

if we emphasize renewable energy and sustainability technology.

So I think we are crossing a tipping point,

and you need only look at the recovery plans

that are being presented in nations around the world

to see that they're very much focused on a green recovery.

CA: I mean, one obvious impact of the pandemic

is that it's brought the world's economy to a shuddering halt,

thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

AG: Well, it's a little bit of an illusion, Chris,

and you need only look back to the Great Recession in 2008 and '09,

when there was a one percent decline in emissions,

they came roaring back during the recovery

The latest estimates are that emissions will go down by at least five percent

as the economist Paul Krugman perceptively described it,

but whether it goes back the way it did after the Great Recession

and if these green recovery plans are actually implemented,

and I know many countries are determined to implement them,

After all, this whole process is occurring

during a period when the cost of renewable energy

and a range of other sustainability approaches

and they're becoming much more competitive.

Just a quick reference to how fast this is:

five years ago, electricity from solar and wind

was cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels

This year, it's cheaper in two-thirds of the world,

it will be cheaper in virtually 100 percent of the world.

EVs will be cost-competitive within two years,

that could interrupt the pattern we saw after the Great Recession.

CA: The reason those pricing differentials happen in different parts of the world

is obviously because there's different amounts of sunshine and wind there

and different building costs and so forth.

AG: Well, yes, and government policies also account for a lot.

The world is continuing to subsidize fossil fuels

more so in many developing countries than in the US and developed countries,

wind and solar will be cheaper as a source of electricity

CA: I think I've heard it said that the fall in emissions

isn't that much more than, actually, the fall that we will need

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