I still consider Al Gore a hero of mine. From the time before the 2000 “election” when he called environmental disaster the number 2 threat to the United States (behind, guess what, terrorism,) I thought this could be the greatest thing to ever happen to my continent: an environmentalist as President of the Free World.
Disappointing, then, that he is so frequently criticized by the depleting faction of Bush apologists that refuse to see the future as a time worth thinking about. He can take it, of course. But why, Al, do you make it so easy for them sometimes? He can charge whatever he wants for speaking engagements, and I’ll bet that a lot of that green isn’t just “lining his own pockets,” but also being spent on research. (Although at approximately $7000 a minute, he should have the cash by now to save the planet himself.) Even worse, in my opinion, is using two separate modes of transportation for him and his luggage. Isn’t the whole point of his rhetoric that some sacrifices have to be made for the greater good? In any case, I still love Al Gore, but nobody should have to tell him to smarten up.
And, as an aside, I feel about as sick and dirty as I should using a link that shills for Ann Coulter to dis Al Gore.
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Al Gore, in his book and film, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' suggests that the best way that GHG emissions can be brought down is via sound government policy (such as that we see from California in their auto-emissions regulation). Gore never suggests that people ought to change fundamentally their mannerisms (there are other environmentalsts who do, such as David Suzuki) in order that we might overcome the global warming crisis; therefore all criticism of Gore being a hypocrite is to me invalid -he is a lobbyist for policy reform, not an self-flaggelating eco-hippie.
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