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Al Gore's book, 'Earth in the Balance', was discussed in the context of his decades-long fight for climate change awareness and action. It was mentioned as a book that advocated for phasing out the internal combustion engine.
You've been in this fight for decades. You wrote Earth in the Balance, what, 30 years ago.
— Episode: "Nukes of Hazzard." (Live from Nashville...
Episode: "Nukes of Hazzard." (Live from Nashville!)
Al Gore's book, 'Earth in the Balance', was discussed in the context of his decades-long fight for climate change awareness and action. It was mentioned as a book that advocated for phasing out the internal combustion engine.
You've been in this fight for decades. You wrote Earth in the Balance, what, 30 years ago.
Earth in the Balance had one of the radical proposals that I was attacked on back then was, we need to completely phase out the internal combustion engine within 25 years and replace it with electric vehicles.
Episode: "Nukes of Hazzard." (Live from Nashville!)
Al Gore's book, 'Earth in the Balance', was mentioned in the context of his decades-long fight for climate change awareness and action. It was written 30 years prior to the passage of a climate bill discussed in the podcast.
We're finally getting to the point where we can do that.
I had my--I organized and chaired the first congressional hearing on the climate crisis 41 years ago.
Earth in the Balance had one of the radical proposals that I was attacked on back then was, we need to completely phase out the internal combustion engine within 25 years and replace it with electric vehicles.
Does it say that, like, climate change don't even go there? Wind energy is fat. That kind of thing.
Or does it hold up well?
