Al Gore Recasts Climate Pitch 20 Years Later as Renewable Costs Plunge
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Updated · The New York Times · May 25
Al Gore Recasts Climate Pitch 20 Years Later as Renewable Costs Plunge
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 25
Twenty years after “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore is now leading his climate case with economics rather than the moral imperative that defined his 2006 documentary.
In a Nashville presentation this month, Gore argued that plunging costs for solar panels and wind turbines have made climate action an affordable choice driven by market forces.
That shift mirrors a broader change in the climate debate, with clean-energy technology advances giving advocates a more cost-focused case than was available two decades ago.
Gore has kept updating the slide show in hundreds of cities worldwide, extending a campaign that helped push global warming into the mainstream and later earned him a share of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Can market forces alone solve the climate crisis, or has the moral imperative been abandoned too soon?
If green energy is now the affordable choice, why haven't consumer electricity prices universally dropped?