Thread by @corporateeurope

“We cannot let the oil companies and gas companies and petrostates tell us what is permissible” - @AlGore in #Davos

🧵 Read more exerts as he calls out fossil fuel industry influence
#KickBigPollutersOut
#FossilFreePolitics
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2/"Putting the oil industry in charge of the COP. Is that going to tell young people around the world ‘we’ve just decided to not even disguise it any more’? The rest of us have to reform these international institutions"

@AlGore let's #KickBigPollutersOut of the UN climate talks

3/@AlGore: "Every piece of pro-climate legislation at the national level, the regional level, the local level, the municipal level, the oil and gas industry, the coal industry, they come in and fight it tooth and nail."
#FossilFreePolitics

4/The ex-US Vice President explains how the oil&gas industry influence politics:

"They use their legacy network of political influence and wealth to stop progress."

That's why we need #FossilFreePolitics, don't you agree @Algore?

5/Gore ends by calling for change so that we can say “‘We are now in charge of our own destiny... We’re going to save the future and give people hope’. We can do it and remember that political will is itself a renewable resource”
#FossilFreePolitics
#KickBigPollutersOut