Al Gore's 10-year climate challenge

On July 17, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. vice president Al Gore presented a 10-year plan to solve the climate crisis.

As Gore noted:

[O]ur dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all three of these challenges - the economic, environmental, and national security crises.

We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that's got to change.

But if we grab hold of that common thread and pull it hard, all of these complex problems begin to unravel and we will find that we're holding the answer to all of them right in our hand.

The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels.

Under Gore's plan, in 10 years we can be producing 100% of our electricity from renewable and clean carbon-free sources.

The above video contains highlights from the speech. I strongly urge everyone to check it out and then join in the challenge.

We can't let the oil men in the White House and their friends in Congress stop our efforts to overcome our carbon addiction.

>> Watch the full speech and read the transcript.