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Originally Posted by Stranger
I am all for cutting greenhouse gases and trying to be more environmentally friendly. I try to recycle and turn off a light when I'm not in the room.
But I don't attribute any of what I do to Al Gore. He comes accross as someone who can talk the talk, but not walk the walk. He probably pollutes ten times what my family would in a year. From riding in private jets to cruising the town in limos to heating his 10,000 sq ft house, Al gore needs to do what he preaches. Sure he buys into companies that make green power, but wouldn't it make more sense to live sensibly and contribute to green companies than to live a life of excess and claim that because I spend a little extra money on green stocks that its okay for me to pollute. And then he tells me to bike to work and live in a straw house.
When Al Gore makes Tipper bike to work, carpools to his speeches and finally builds that straw house of his, I'll take him seriously.
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Originally Posted by Stranger
We'll said. Gore should be able to set up a webcast of his speeches and broadcast them from home. After all he invented the internet. Why does he have to travel to world to spread his message when there are other more environmentally friendly ways of doing it? Also I never understood why he needs to ride around in a convoy of limos and SUV's. Does David Suzuki do the same?
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I read stuff like this and I just shake my head. This is proof that the echo chamber works. A faulty and inaccurate position is dreamed up by some think tank (Tennessee Center for Policy Research) and positioned in the media. One source picks it up, reports it without fact checking, and it starts to be repeated as outlets don't want to be left behind in reporting the sensational. Sadly, when the actual facts come out, they never make the same splash, because the truth is not sensational and does not have the excitement of the fabricated story. All it takes is repetition and a gullible public to consume a fallacy, and that fallacy becomes de facto truth.
I've seen it brought up a couple of times in this thread, and I think the whole covoy of SUV's needs to be explained. As an ex-Vice President, Gore is afforded Secret Service protection. This is not by his own choice, this is a requirement by the government. Same goes for every other past President or Vice-President. They get this protection everywhere they go, and it is not their choice.