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June 29, 2011
Walter Russell Mead Thoroughly Decimates What Little Credibility Al Gore Had Left
Topics: Political News and commentariesToday's must-read is Walter Russell Mead's devastating piece of a few days ago that thoroughly destroys any pretentions to credibility that Al Gore may think he still had left.
Here's an excerpt to pique your interest:
[...] But you cannot be a leading environmentalist who hopes to lead the general public into a long and difficult struggle for sacrifice and fundamental change if your own conduct is so flagrantly inconsistent with the green gospel you profess. If the heart of your message is that the peril of climate change is so imminent and so overwhelming that the entire political and social system of the world must change, now, you cannot fly on private jets. You cannot own multiple mansions. You cannot even become enormously rich investing in companies that will profit if the policies you advocate are put into place.There's also this:
[...] But grave as that danger is, Al Gore can consume more carbon than whole villages in the developing world. He can consume more electricity than most African schools, incur more carbon debt with one trip in a private plane than most of the earth's toiling billions will pile up in a lifetime -- and he doesn't worry. A father of four, he can lecture the world on the perils of overpopulation. Surely, skeptics reason, if the peril were as great as he says and he cares about it as much as he claims, Gore's sense of civic duty would call him to set an example of conspicuous non-consumption. This general sleeps in a mansion, and lectures the soldiers because they want tents.And there's much more.
Related:
Al Gore's Ugly Rhetoric Is Nothing New
CO2 Does NOT Cause Climate Temperature Changes
Al Gore in Denial
Hat tip - Rod Radosch
Posted by Richard at June 29, 2011 10:32 AM
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