He's not an environmentalist - Why I can't trust Al Gore
The environmentalist?I am an environmentalist, but not a hardcore environmentalist; however, I have known a lot of hardcore environmentalists. People whom never shower, hate to flush toilets, eat only natural foods, and drive bio-diesel cars with bio-diesel they made in the basement (but whom only drove if they absolutely have to drive) - people obsessively concerned not just with their carbon footprint, but their entire footprint upon the world.
Al Gore is not one of these people. Read the rest of Why I can't trust Al Gore
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posted by Dahcredyns @ 1:11 PM
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Consequently, when a friend of mine asked me to join an Al Gore campaign to make Congress act on global warming, I said no. When asked why, I told my friend that I just didn't trust Al Gore - I don't trust most politicians.
As a college student, I was very inspired by Mr. Gore when he penned Earth in the Balance, yet I was very surprised by how little the Clinton/Gore administration accomplished in terms of the environment during their term. Still, Clinton was the President, not Gore.
Consequently, I wasn't surprised that Al Gore took up the environmental cause again after leaving the White House. So An Inconvenient Truth didn't shock me.
What has shocked me, however, are the constant stories of how un-environmental Al Gore is, such as stories about Gore's private jets and his 20-times-the-average-person electricity consumption. How can Mr. Gore live this way if he truly believes the message he is sending?
Inevitably, I believe Al Gore is a still a politician - almost a paid spokesman for the environmental movement - but not an environmentalist. If Mr. Gore were an environmentalist, he wouldn't live in a mansion, he'd live in some kind of super eco-friendly house. Moreover, he should have been using solar and wind power for many years, as many environmentalists with the means have for many years.
But Mr. Gore is a politician, not an environmental activist like Ed Begley Jr., whom absolutely practices what he preaches. Mr. Gore, on the other hand, is an energy hog who talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk.
Yeah, but Mr. Gore uses terra passes!
Ultimately, I don't care about terra-passes if that's how you live like an environmentalist - buying your way out of real action. If Mr. Gore wants to be the leader of the new environmental movement, he should be a leading example of how to live like a true environmentalist.
Judging by his actions, Mr. Gore is a pathetic environmentalist at best. Environmentalism isn't something you buy with carbon credits, it's a way of life, a way of living. A true environmentalist doesn't need a terra pass. A true environmentalist buys a terra pass because he or she feels guilty about a flight they had to take to a funeral. A terra pass is not a way of offsetting the wrongs in your daily life because your daily life should be guided by your core principals, and apparently Gore's core principals have little to do with environmentalism.
Simply speaking about environmental issues can never make an environmentalist and Mr. Gore is no environmentalist. Quite frankly Mr. Gore's use of the environment to fulfill his political ego is nothing short of hypocritical and possibly even shameful.
really?
I mean, what you say has some hard points to it, but just bringing down the man because he's trying to raise awareness and bring about action and isn't some Jesus-figure walking amongst us.
And Al Gore's not a politician, though he's spent much of his political life trying bring about awareness and change about the singular issue of global warming. The very idea that you weren't surprised when he took up the environmental cause should attest to that.
but back to the politician thing, i mean, he's more of a celebrity nowadays using his celebrity and public persona to bring about awareness and change on a very important environmental issue that has been silenced by years of think tanks, lobbyists, and corporate doodads.
without getting into a myriad of other political issues and the wrongs and ills imposed by the few onto the many of society, I don't understand how you can't trust al gore, when you already (appear) to trust his message. it sounds as if you're saying no to fighting for what you acknowledge, believe in, and find important because you don't like the teacher.
to the casual reader of this blog, the message of this blog then can read "don't trust al gore" and further "don't trust global warming"
I guess i'm just posting, because i felt it was important to distinguish the two - that if you really have a hard time with the man, it's at least worth looking into what he's got to say.
you can't judge a book by it's cover.
we're not all wasps and butterflies.
kyle-
if gore isn't a politician, then why does his name keep coming up as a potential presidential nominee? people related to the gore camp have investigated the possibility of him running for president.
moreover, gore has spent almost his entire life as a politician. so, in my mind, he's still a politician.
and, just to reiterate, i don't trust gore at all as an environmentalist.
i barely squeak by month to month yet i've been using efficient lightbulbs for years, i use solar power. i limit my water use.
in the last few years i've barely driven, instead i've built my life around public transportation because it was the most effective thing i could do at the time.
even though i can't afford it i've been investigating a complete solar power system for my house.
i do this things because i believe in them - not for pr, but for my own conscience.
al gore is fork-tongued pale face whom says one thing, but does another.
gore can afford to live entirely off the grid. he could have afforded it more than a decade ago. yet, he's just barely starting to act like an environmentalist.
i've been striving to get off the grid for a decade, and if I was worth just the interest off Gore's wealth i would be living completely off the grid.
yet gore isn't. his comfortable lifestyle is more important than his convictions?
buying carbon credits to offset the damage your inefficient mansion and lifestyle has caused means NOTHING good to me. it means al gore is a putz that talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.
hi, i'm al gore, i play an environmentalist on tv, but in the real world i'm one of the top individual polluters.
as for gore being the messenger. recent polls show most americans do not believe gore on global warming. thus, i'd say he's not a very good messenger. he's not believable.
as for global warming, i believe that man is a contributor, but i believe it is very debatable as to how much of the problem is related to man. man could be the major source, or a minor source. it could be that man is just making natural global warming happen faster.
gore, on the other hand, acts is if its all man.
when nature acts in a cyclical manner and global warming has happened in the past without man, it only makes sense that global warming will happen again. thus, if there are contributing forces creating global warming, aside from man, then we absolutely need to know what they are, otherwise you can never develop an effective solution.
gore, from my experiences, never accepts the other contributors factor. that's not objectivity. that's not science, and its extremely dangerous if we put all our eggs in one basket and are then proven wrong - as has happened to the 'science' of the day so many times in the past.
when push comes to shove scientists do not have a complete understanding of climate. thus, it is impossible for any scientist - either for or against global warming - to claim the phenomenon is completely understood in terms of cause and effect.
thus, the global warming messenger needs to be honest, trustworthy and believable. more important, the messenger needs to be open-minded and objective.
if al gore wants the world to change to fight global warming, it has to start with his actions, not his message.
"be the change that you want to see in the world" ghandi once said - by that standard, gore is an utter failure as an environmentalist and as a global warming 'activist'.
RIGHT ON BROTHER! couldn't of said it better myself.
What is truly amazing though is the countless "hypocrite deniers" who continue to stand up for these hypocrites.
I say try riding your bike to work, I do as much as I can. Over 2,000 miles this year.
BAM!
You just hit this nail on the head. I've written this exact same article in my own blog in my own words. Gore is the WRONG guy to be championing the need for us to be more careful with Mother Earth.
Why? He doesn't practice what he preaches and he's too divisive.
Two of the surest ways to ensure people won't follow his counsel.
Gore's a pol and always will hunger for attention.
An Inconvenient Truth was more about him than anything else - proof he was seeking attention and purpose after losing the POTUS job.
For that documentary to win an Academy Award was a slam to all films.
Give it up Gore. Carbon credits - what a joke.
TK
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