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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
I don't think anyone is placing much faith in what "Gore" has to say, but is instead placing faith in the science that is being represented. Gore, BTW, has been doing this (similar) presentation for years. This is something that he has been very active in talking about and getting people to listen to. I think this is the reasn why he will not go back into politics. He understands that politics requires lawmakers to make decisions based on issues of the day, not long term problems. Global Warming is a long term problem than needs resolving and trying to do so in office would be next to impossible. You would need executive mandates to make many of these initiatives work, and that would require those mandates to transend persidential terms. Because of the bipolar situation in American politics, that is unlikely to happen. As sad as it is, it is easier to generate the change by going door-to-door than it is through government. If a ground swell of support in the zeitgeist can be developed, that can put the pressure on politicians to do more than pay lip service to the problem. Frankly, in corporate run America, the only way these problems are going to be changed is through consumer demand and corporations engaging the issues. Gore will have more impact by staying out of politics and communicating the issues to the world, having the people cast their votes with their dollars and spending habits.
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I see that you sat that global warming is a long term problem, what you forgot to add Lanny is that it needs to be fixed in a short period of time. I don't like Al Gore but i don't dislike him either, but he is a politician at heart and that's the end of it. If he had the balls to do anything while in office as VP he would have, the problem with that is he would have lost all the votes from the oil and gas sector which would include auto workers union, this he couldn't have done.
If these people want to preach about global warming and how easy it is to fix then why don't they start at the top, they have the technology for electric/solar power cars, why doesn't mister Gore do something about that? See, once big business buys into global warming and fixing it then it will trickle down to the consumer, but until they do something about it then it's not a topic worth talking about. The oil and gas companies are the ones with the power to make a change, i don't forsee this happening in North America for a long time.