The former vice president was in Madrid this week for a UN climate change conference and told Spanish newspaper El Pais about his admiration for the Swedish teenager.
, after she shot to world fame following an impassioned plea at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September.withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement struck in 2016, which aimed to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers a speech during the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, on December 11, 2019.When asked about what he thought about the current U.S. president, Gore said:"I have to choose my words carefully because I am not in my country, but he is a disaster for the political climate and many others. I hope he is defeated next year."has contacted the White House for comment.
Gore described to the Spanish paper the knock-on effects of climate change, which included"climate refugees" fleeing the eastern Mediterranean and the rise in huge fires that have ravaged parts of Portugal, Spain and Greece. He said these were just warnings about what could happen in the future"if we do not stop using the sky as a sewer."
He said it"was still possible" to stop the earth's temperature from exceeding 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, telling"The failure of U.S. policies has had a negative effect on the ability of the world community to move forward but I hope that next year the United States will join the world community again and help us move forward again to find solutions to the climate crisis," he said.
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