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GORE: “Beyond that, there are very tiny areas in the world today that are physiologically unlivable, in the Sahara Desert, a few places around the Persian Gulf. The combination of heat and humidity makes it impossible for people to live more than four or five hours outdoors. Those areas are now beginning to expand dramatically, and the World Health Organization’s Climate Committee says that by 2050 we could have 1 to 2 billion climate migrants crossing international borders. A few million coming from the eastern Mediterranean, with the climate drought there, led to Viktor Orban and Brexit and authoritarian-friendly governments that have emerged. It’s hard to imagine what a billion climate migrants would do to our capacity for self-governance. And we’re in danger of crossing some so-called negative tipping points, like the shutting down of the Gulf Stream — it sounds like a science fiction movie, and it was, but it’s now a very real threat and there are others. So we are now trapping as much heat with this pollution every day as would be by 750,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every 24 hours. That’s insane for us to allow that to continue.”Source: Interview - Bloomberg TV