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karynnj

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1. Three articles on this wonderful event -
Fri Oct 27, 2017, 02:22 PM
Oct 2017
https://news.yale.edu/2017/10/27/gore-kerry-political-will-renewable-resource

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/10/27/kerry-gore-call-for-climate-action/

http://wnpr.org/post/al-gore-talks-climate-change-john-kerry-yale

Having watched it all, it was very good to see these two friends, who have long fought for the same goal, essentially echoing things that both have said for years. This was a forum for Yale students and both were clear why they were there. They were calling on these young kids to become the activists who could provide the force to make the needed changes.

Gore speaks not just on climate change. Kerry's first question referenced Gore's book, Assault on Reason. To say, it was prescient given the age of alt facts is an understatement. His response - that our democracy was "hacked" before the Russians by the lobbyists and big money was something that Kerry addressed with Kerry/Welstone, the stronger version of McCain/Feingold and a main topic of the speech he gave when he left the Senate.

I had not seen Gore for a long time and he was very good and looked good. Gore has renewed his efforts on climate change. In fact, he spoke of having come from a big training event in Pittsburgh - the city that Trump spoke of when he left the Paris Accord. He spoke of Teresa having been part of that event -- as well as the mayor, who immediately had disagreed with Trump saying Pittsburgh was still in.

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