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In what is seemingly another veiled attempt to get Davos panellists to send a message to Trump, Al Gore asks Jacinda Arden to conjure a world leader in her mind.

It can be “man or woman” he says - trying to stay vague - who doesn’t want to do anything about the climate crisis, and is “hostile” to any efforts to take action. What would you say to them, he asks.



Jacinda says she’s not sure she would say anything at all but instead show something. “It only takes a trip to the Pacific to see that climate change isn’t a hypothetical,” and it doesn’t even require any knowledge of the science behind it. She said someone from the Pacific islands could show you where they used to play as children and where the water has risen to now.



Then it’s a matter of then saying that you don’t have to cede power by acting on climate change, and assuring there’s nothing to fear about their individual status. “It’s about being on the right side of history,” and being the politician looking back and knowing you were on the “right side” when the world was “crying out for a solution”.