SNL’s Pete Davidson joins Al Gore onstage during climate change event in Atlanta
Former Vice President Al Gore was back in Atlanta on Thursday for a three-day meeting to train activists on environmental justice and climate change.
Pete Davidson of “Saturday Night Live” joined the former vice president on stage, and those attending the training lit Twitter up with posts.
Great to have @nbcsnl’s Pete Davidson live from Atlanta for this week’s @ClimateReality training. #LeadOnClimate https://t.co/scJWZEnP5s
— Al Gore (@algore) March 14, 2019
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“Pretend the environment is a girl you’re in love with who just got engaged to someone else. The situation is dire but there’s still time,” Davidson reportedly told the trainees.
Pete Davidson breaks down where we are in the urgency needed to combat climate change: “Pretend the environment is a girl you’re in love with who just got engaged to someone else. The situation is dire but there’s still time.” @ClimateReality #climatechange #climatehope pic.twitter.com/8IbTTxElE9
— Urban Conservancy (@UrbanConserv) March 14, 2019
Davidson not only got Gore to talk to millennials in their language ...
So I just watched SNL’s Pete Davidson coax Al Gore to speak to millennials and say that destroying the environment is “Rachet AF!”
— Janice Eaton (@SwampLily3) March 14, 2019
(Al professed not to understand. LOLZ)#ClimateRealityTraining2019 #LeadOnClimate
“Denying climate science is rachet AF”. -Pete Davidson cue card, as read by @algore 😂 #LeadOnClimate pic.twitter.com/zfZFr7o1HH
— Renee Ryan, MS, RDN (@RyanNutrition) March 14, 2019
The comedian and Gore announced their plans to bring back Captain Planet — with Davidson playing Captain Planet. Davidson is a regular cast member on "SNL," sure, but he also had a role in the Taraji P. Henson movie "What Men Want," which was filmed in Atlanta. He appeared in scenes filmed at Woodruff Arts Center.
Captain Planet was created by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle aired on TBS in the early 1990s to teach children about saving the Earth.
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SNL’s Pete Davidson + @AlGore announce that they want to bring back Captain Planet (Pete wants to be Captain Planet). Good News! @LeoDiCaprio is developing the new, live action #CaptainPlanet movie. @ClimateReality + @CaptainPlanetfd continue empowering Planeteers #LeadOnClimate pic.twitter.com/wnQvcvAdDl
— John R. Seydel (@JohnRSeydel) March 14, 2019
Gore and Davidson appeared to be a hit with the group.
Big thanks to @ClimateReality for ten minutes of what may be the world’s best intentioned, least natural comedy duo: @algore and Pete Davidson.
— Ursula McV (@mcphursula) March 14, 2019
Pete Davidson and Al Gore #LeadOnClimate here in Atlanta with over 2000 new Climate Reality speakers pic.twitter.com/kA7GUqGbjj
— Eve Simmons (@eve_simmons) March 14, 2019
And yes, Pete Davidson should absolutely be the next @TheCaptnPlanet!!!! @captainplanetfd @JohnRSeydel @algore #LeadOnClimate #climatechangeisratchetaf https://t.co/tgqTQilBCu
— Jennette Gayer (@JennetteGayer) March 14, 2019
.@algore having a fun but serious chat with @nbcsnl's Pete Davidson at @ClimateReality Leadership Corp training #LeadOnClimate pic.twitter.com/NPfYJyc6SK
— F. Niro Ghadaki (@FNGhadaki) March 14, 2019
The Climate Reality Project continues through Saturday. This is the 40th time Gore has hosted this kind of training, but the first time he's included "A Moral Call to Action on the Climate Crisis," an interfaith mass meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at Ebenezer Baptist Church, featuring the historic church's pastor, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, and the Rev. William J. Barber II, a 2018 MacArthur fellow.
“The climate crisis, as many of us have said for a long time, is not a political issue,” Gore told The AJC in January. “It is a moral and spiritual issue for the survival of humanity.”
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