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Al Gore talks 'Climate Reality,' regrets and hopes for the grandkids. (www.usatoday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This dude's time in politics seems like forever ago...

and he's younger than both trump and biden. and has better climate policies too!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why won't he try to mount a comeback?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

He'll come out with a sequel documentary: The Inconvenient Toldyaso

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

when the bones of our long dead species are excavated by some interstellar archeological suvey, I hope there is a monument somewhere on earth memorialising the fact that the US supreme court handed bush the lesser the presidency and helped to fuck us all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It would be really nice if the big mostly-white images in the sidebar on this topic were collapsible. It's blinding in dark mode.

[–] tpihkal 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Listen the heck up artards, Al Gore is super serial.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I can't believe I'm actually saying this guys, but I think we have to apologize to Al Gore...