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“We are now trapping as much heat with this pollution every day as would be released by 750,000 Hiroshima class bomb atomic bombs exploding every twenty four hours.”

“Well, yes. But what I really did was what Winston Churchill said about the American people. They generally do the right thing after first exhausting every available alternative. And I did, exhaust every available alternative, save one that the outcome of which would have been certain. There is a a very little known provision in the constitution that if you get to a complete deadlock in the electoral college, then it goes to the house of representatives and it's a strange mechanism where each state has one vote. The Republican party completely dominated that election.”

“And I learned that my secret to success in business is to get great partners. And David Blood, my cofounder, The old joke is, I've worn it out really, I wanted to name the firm Blood and Gore, but the other the other partners wouldn't wouldn't agree to it.”

“I was raised in two places. My father was in the Congress House and Senate, so I spent a lot of time in DC as a child. But every summer and Christmas and my spiritual home was in Carthage, Tennessee, and that's where my draft board was. And I couldn't imagine walking down the street and seeing a family whose son had died in Vietnam and them knowing that I had used some connections to get out of it.”

“And the World Health Organization's Climate Committee says that by 2050, we could have one to 2,000,000,000 climate migrants crossing international borders. A few million coming from, the Eastern Mediterranean with the climate drought there led to Viktor Orban and Brexit and authoritarian friendly governments that have have emerged. It's hard to imagine what a billion climate migrants would do to our capacity for self governance.”

“I had in, my last year in college a a course under a man now recognized as one of the greatest climate scientists of all time, Roger Revelle. And he opened my eyes to the issue, and educated me, and it was like a window opening onto the future. And everything that he said at the time has come true, unfortunately. He designed the first experiment to measure c o two in the Earth's atmosphere.”

“In April 1989, one of my children had a very, very serious, accident. My son almost lost his life, and the recovery was, quite lengthy, and the stress and strain on the family, of course, was. He was hit by a car. It went to your beloved Orioles, in Baltimore. And after the game, I hate to tell you I was rooting for the Red Sox in that game, but but, afterwards, he was hit by a car. It was a it was a devastating, experience in so many ways. I was worried when I got to him that he had died.”

“If I ask you, it's not a trick question, but if you look at all of the new electricity generation installed worldwide last year, I often ask people what percentage of it was renewable? And people say, you know, they they're looking for a high number, say maybe 30%, 35%. Correct answer is 93%, because it is taking over the electricity generation industry.”