Al Gore has 7 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 13 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 7 ratings. The most-rated is An Inconvenient Truth.
An Inconvenient Truth
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"The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking the planet and move through it, listeners first have to recognize that they are facing a crisis. So why is it that public leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings? "Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't diminish; it grows."- Al Gore
©2006 Al Gore (P)2008 Simon and Schuster, Inc.
The Future
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From the former vice president and #1 New York Times best-selling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything - a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Naisbitt’s Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world: Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels “Earth Inc.” - an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past. The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of “the Global Mind,” which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases. The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years—from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets. A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet’s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species. Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science - and are putting control of evolution in human hands. There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth’s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide. From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths - no matter how “inconvenient” they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, The Future is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.
©2013 Al Gore (P)2013 Random House Audio
Le sfide del nostro tempo
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"Rep: Digest" ti offre ogni settima due appuntamenti con l'informazione di Repubblica. Due raccolte di articoli in formato audio che raccontano e analizzano i temi e le notizie della settimana. Le sfide del nostro tempo: Al Gore: il clima è la battaglia del nostro tempo e possiamo vincerla, di Al Gore; Thomas Piketty: l'ideologia di mercato è fanatismo, di Anais Ginori; Facciamo pace con le Ong, di Gad Lerner; Le dee dell'acqua senza più ghiaccio, di Paolo Cognetti. >>Questo podcast vi è offerto grazie alla collaborazione esclusiva tra Audible e La Repubblica.
©2019 Gedi Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A (P)2019 Gedi Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A
La guerra di Greta
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"Rep: Digest" ti offre ogni settima due appuntamenti con l'informazione di Repubblica. Due raccolte di articoli in formato audio che raccontano e analizzano i temi e le notizie della settimana. La guerra di Greta: La profezia di Greta, di Luca Fraioli; Bill Gates: "Il mondo migliora, ma nuovi rischi dal clima che cambia", di Klaus Geiger; Perché Greta smuove il mondo, di Luca Fraioli; "Basta buttare i cellulari rotti. Dateci il diritto di aggiustarli", di Riccardo Luna; Il clima è la battaglia del nostro tempo. E possiamo vincerla, di Al Gore; Impegno sul clima dai grandi del mondo. Ma Greta li sgrida, di Arturo Zampaglione. >>Questo podcast vi è offerto grazie alla collaborazione esclusiva tra Audible e La Repubblica.
©2019 Gedi Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A (P)2019 Gedi Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A
Earth in the Balance
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In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President, Al Gore asserts that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion. He argues that only a worldwide mobilization can save us from disaster and presents a brilliant and comprehensive plan for action that encompasses not only the earth's ecology, but also population trends, appropriate technology, and environmental education.
©1992 Senator Al Gore (P)1992 / 2017 Dove Audio / Phoenix Books
The Assault on Reason
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Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: "Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election" What has happened to our country and how can we fix it? We are in the midst of a deepening crisis for our democracy. After the strangest election cycle in modern American history, it is important that we address the grave threats to our way of life that were glaringly revealed in this campaign. In The Assault on Reason, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore examines how faith in the power of reason - the idea that citizens can govern themselves through rational debate - is in peril. Our democracy depends on a well-informed citizenry and a two-way conversation about ideas, but our public sphere has been degraded by fake news and the politics of fear, partisanship, and blind faith. Now updated to investigate the rise of Trump and post-truth politics, The Assault on Reason is a call to rebuild the vitality of American democracy by restoring the nation's information ecosystem so that we can start making good decisions again.
©2007 Al Gore (P)2007 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Earth in the Balance
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Winner of the 1993 Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Book Award. In brave and unforgettable terms, Al Gore, the passionate and lifelong defender of the environment, describes how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us.
©1992 Albert Gore (P)1992, 2015 Dove Audio, Phoenix Books