Gore Not So Green
Are you bleepin' freezing yet? Another vicious cold spell grips most of the country. There is snow in the UK and despite the evidence that the Earth has been cooling for the past 11 years, global warming fanatics tell us this is also a symptom of global warming. Huh? How so? If it is hot, it's global warming. If it is bitterly cold, that's global warming too. Drinking up that Kool-Aid are you?
Self-appointed Climate Prophet Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle. Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb and we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."
– from the 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth
So what is Al Gore doing to save the planet? Is he following his own advice — or not?
Gore tells us to change our ways with CFLs (compact fluorescent light) bulbs — the ones that contain poisonous mercury. And he instructs us to use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, and cut back on consumption. You think Tipper hangs out her laundry? If Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet.
But Al and Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. Talk about excessive consumption! He also has a third home in Carthage TN, oh but let's not split hairs. For someone lecturing us to sacrifice, Gore is not much of an example.
In Nashville and in D.C., the utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, but not the Gores.
And there is Howard Dean whose brain cells must have been frostbitten by the cold in Vermont in the midst of this global warming. He parrots Gore, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence."
Yet the DNC that Dean is chairman of, has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green.
Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.
The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he really believes his own hype, then why hasn't he made any radical change in his own life?
—based on USA Today article dated 12/7/2006
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