“A challenge to our moral imagination”
[This article was first published on September 29, 2006]
Isabel Hilton: In your film, you say that climate change is not a political but a moral issue. What do you mean?
Al Gore: It`s a moral issue because it affects the survival of human civilisation. It`s a challenge to our moral imagination to understand that we could actually be affecting the entire planet. The planet will survive, of course, but its habitability for us is what we are now putting into question, and since it is the present generation delivering consequences suffered by those generations yet to come, that raises a profoundly moral challenge: do we have the right? And, of course, we do not.
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