Gore: “It's not too late!”

Adam Nagourney files this account of an interview he did with Al Gore:

"But in a feisty and frequently argumentative telephone conversation, Mr. Gore brimmed with disdain at the state of American politics and political journalism, urging his interviewer to quit a career covering politics to turn to matters of real consequence. 'Stop covering politics; cover the climate crisis. It is not too late!' he said, with a boom of laughter." Why? "Politics, he said, has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport."