Former Vice President Al  Gore is comparing the struggle to win over climate change skeptics to the  fight against racism.
When racist comments would come up in the course of  conversations, “There came a time when people said, ‘Hey man, why do you talk  that way? That’s wrong, I don’t go for that, so don’t talk that way around me. I  just don’t believe that,’” Gore said in an interview Friday with FearLess Revolution  founder Alex Bogusky.
“That happened in millions of conversations, and  slowly the conversation was won,” Gore said. “And we still have racism, God  knows, but it’s so different now and so much better. And we have to win the  conversation on climate.”
Gore also wants people to give up meat and go  organic to combat global warming.
“Industrial agriculture is a part of the problem,” Gore said. “The shift toward a more meat-intensive diet,” the clearing of forest areas in many  parts of the world in order to raise more cattle and the reliance on synthetic  nitrogen for fertilizer are also problems, he added.
Gore advocated organic farming and relying on “more  productive, safer methods that put carbon back in the soil” to produce “safer  and better food.”
Gore also railed against the mining industry,  calling mountaintop-removal mining a “horrible practice” that is “just  incredibly harmful to the environment and to people.”
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