Al Gore and Lila Preston question everything in their firm’s new climate report

You quickly cover a lot of ground in the report, from plastics to transportation. What do you find to be the most vexing problem of our age?

AG: As tempting as it is to just pick out one factor and highlight it as the main challenge we face, I’m gonna resist answering your question that way. We still have to cross the threshold of decision making on a collective global scale. We’re getting very close; as others have written, it seems like Mother Nature is staging an intervention. And we have these powerful tailwinds with the cost-reduction curves for wind and solar and batteries and EVs and LEDs and clean buildings and sustainable forestry and regenerative agriculture.