![]() ![]() “And then probably another half on Generation.” “Probably a little more than half on Climate Reality,” and then half on some other commitments. ![]() I asked him how he divided his time among the projects. He founded and chairs an advocacy group called the Climate Reality Project, travels constantly for speeches, and has published several books since An Inconvenient Truth, including another No. He has become a partner in the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins and is a member of the Apple board. ![]() Gore is still involved on most of these fronts. The movie version won two Oscars, the audiobook won a Grammy, and for his climate work Gore was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. His first book about climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, was a No. politician to issue an early warning against the impending invasion of Iraq, which he did in a speech in California in September 2002. Gore declined to discuss his personal finances with me, but published estimates of his net worth are in the hundreds of millions. According to his financial-disclosure forms, Gore was worth between $1 million and $2 million when he ran for president. Throughout his political life he was poor compared with many senators now by any standard he is rich. In 2005 he and a partner launched Current TV, which in 2013 was sold to Al Jazeera for several hundred million dollars. He connected himself with the leading tech firms of the era, Google and Apple. Some of the answers he found are known to everyone. He was 52, two years younger than Barack Obama is now he hadn’t worked outside the government in decades and even if he managed to cope personally with a historically bitter disappointment that might have broken many people, he would still face the task of deciding how to spend the upcoming years. “I’d had a plan”-this with a seemingly genuine chuckle rather than any sign of a grimace-“but … that changed!” After the “change,” via the drawn-out 2000 presidential election in which he won the vote of the populace but not that of the Supreme Court, for the first time in his adult life Gore found himself without an obvious next step. “When i left the White House in 2001, I really didn’t know what I was going to do with my life,” Al Gore told me this summer, at his office in the Green Hills district of Nashville. ![]()
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