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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
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Great information Mel. I was unaware of those links, although they certainly do make sense for a guy to establish a firm like that if he is going to be making these purchases. I think this issue is very interesting and would like to understand the mechanism and what the "investment firm" does. The bottom line is that someone has to produce the energy, and someone has to pay for it. I'm unclear on what the potential problem is with having a management firm making these carbon offset purchases for you. Based on information from their web site they are an firm that invests in companies that participate in green activities. Pretty draconian stuff there. Seems like a guy bent on taking over the world to me.
See, this is the part I still don't get. Gore is accused of being a fear monger and promoting a belief that doesn't exist. You routinely see responses like this:
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Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty
Gore is probably the most dangerous propagandist and opportunist in the western world. Let's waste billions of dollars, cripple the world economy in order to prevent something that is not even happening (drastic human-caused climate changes). Yeah why don't we do just that, because he looks like a nice fellow...
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"Gore is probably the most dangerous propagandist and opportunist in the western world."
Comments like this just show how desperate and uneducated some people are.
Dangerous? Cleaning up the environment and trying to shift our energy needs from dirty finite sources to clean renewable sources is dangerous? Opportunitist? Based on the creation of the above management firm, most definitely. But I think it is completely lost on people that Gore has been doing this same presentation for a very long time. He did not JUST jump on this bandwagon, this has been a long belief.
"Let's waste billions of dollars, cripple the world economy in order to prevent something that is not even happening."
Yup, no fear mongering there. I must have missed the part where Gore says we have to "cripple" the world economy. How exactly is that going to happen? Finding ways to generate energy in a more environmentally friendly way and better managing the finite resources we have is going to "cripple" the world economy? Funny, but every corporation I have ever worked for has taken the exact same stance in operations. Find better ways of doing things, and get the most our of what resources we have. What a terrible concept to promote. Gore and co. are obviously off their rockers.
What's ironic is that some people make rediculous comments like the one quoted and think they are saying something intelligent. In a world where the a certain individual (and his puppet masters) has lied and cajoled his way into war, where BILLIONS of dollars a month ARE being wasted, and tens or hundreds of thousands of people are dead of the result, where a select few are making MASSIVE profits as a result, the comment just rings of demagoguery. But isn't that what this issue has shifted into? A chance for the monkeys to hurl their fecies and beat their chests rather than focusing on the base issue; our species doing what it can to halt the negative impact it is having on our biosphere.