Former Democratic Vice President and leading climate change activist Al Gore drew a parallel between those who fought against civil rights and those who fight the climate change movement — seemingly placing the two social issues on the same moral plane.
“I grew up in the South when the civil rights movement was gaining momentum,” Gore told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria over the weekend. “Believe me, the resistance to civil rights was at least as ferocious as the resistance to the climate movement in solving the climate crisis.”
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