A powerful coalition of faith, environmental, and community leaders packed New York’s historic Riverside Church to declare that inaction on climate change is not just a policy failure—it is a moral crisis. Former Vice President Al Gore and Bishop William Barber II led the charge.
Twenty years after his landmark documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore is still sounding the alarm. But on this stage, the numbers and charts took a back seat to a higher law.
APB News was invited to meet up with the former Vice presdient, joined by co-headliner Bishop William Barber II, who tied environmental degradation directly to systemic injustice, urging a unified moral community to break its silence.
Organized by the Center for Earth Ethics, the gathering brought together Indigenous voices, scientists, and faith leaders. Their shared message: the tools to fix the planet exist, but what’s missing is the collective will to treat destruction of the earth as a sin against its people.
For now, these leaders hope this moral awakening inside a sacred space will echo loudly outside of it – and straight into the halls of power.