The US faces a “Manichaean choice” over climate action in the presidential election, according to former vice-president Al Gore, joining scientists and green business leaders in warning a Donald Trump victory “would be very bad”.
Gore, who won an Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize for his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth on global warming, said that voters who cared about climate change faced the “clearest choice ever” at the November election.
“The contrast actually could not be any clearer. It’s a choice between a candidate who believes the climate crisis is real and has been very vigorous in acting accordingly . . . and another candidate who regularly spreads falsehoods about the reality of the crisis, the efficacy of the solutions and much else.”