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Again leading from the rear

Submitted by Jason Sterlace on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 05:57
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Thus Spake Al Gore:

If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.

It is my fervent hope that within the month we will see the former Vice President and a few dozen young persons chained to construction equipment outside Pittsburgh, chanting pro-nuclear slogans and eating soy granola.

I mean, that would be seriously fantastic.

Of course, it was just over a year ago that Mr. Gore said “I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.”

While the spectres of Rachel Corrie and Daniel McGowan loom behind Mr. Gore, I can't help but wonder why he keeps putting the onus on young people to chain themselves to the construction equipment. Surely he's not afraid to get his hands dirty in order to save the planet? It's time to lead by example, Mr. Gore--and stop placing excessive burdens on future generations. Rather than asking the youth to risk jail or physical harm, wouldn't it be more responsible to encourage them to go see the last of the polar bears, or the few remaining glaciers? Before they're gone?

Let those few baby boomers who have a conscience bear the consequences of sacrifice. After all, this is a cause worth sacrificing for, isn't it Mr. Gore?

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Incoherent

Submitted by Jim Dandy to th... on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 09:06.

I have no idea what this is supposed to be, other than some kind of weak ridicule and a lame attack on Al Gore?

Without even getting into the merits of the arguments on global climate change, politically this issue has served to distance Conservatives and Republicans from the mainstream views of today's Americans, especially young people.  I still can't understand why the GOP delegates, the heart of the Party, were chanting "Drill, baby, drill !!" at their convention, in some kind of weird defiance of... what?

Regardless of how you may feel about Al Gore's past, no one can deny his present effective leadership in making people all over this world pay close attention and become passionate and committed to an issue for which he feels passion.

Without Al Gore, this issue would be debated on the floor of the House at 11pm or on page 27 of National Geographic.

Republicans can only lose this fight, which they are fighting and bleeding as seconds and proxies to the global Energy companies.

LOL

Submitted by gunthestops on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 09:31.

Your house is on fire and and so you use the politics of distraction---yes all the worlds problems can be traced back to Clinton and Gore---lol

Maroons

Submitted by rammage on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 10:47.

Fear-mongering and scare tactics have no place in realm of scientific discourse.  Al Gore is a charlatan out promoting primitivism to help consolidate government power.  And he needs the young and the ignorant (i.e. the commenters above) to help fuel the coal fire.  I agree with the author that Gore needs to come down off his private jet and handcuff himself to a tree. Let's see him, for once, do something for the environment that doesn't include a tidy profit for his portfolio.

The Young and the Ignorant

Submitted by Jim Dandy to th... on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 15:24.

Thanks for the insults.  Typically, you never addressed the points made, but devolved into insult and attack.

No wonder the Conservative and GOP parties cannot make any progress on this issue.

 

I am still waiting from the Gorebull Warning Crowd for the

Submitted by Big Ben 4 liberty on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 16:25.

proof of man, made climate change.  Sure there is climate change, the fossil record and even historical records prove it.  For instance 1000 years ago Greenland was significantly warmer than it is now because the Vikings who settled there set up vineyards.  Good luck trying that enterprise today.  Of course this natural climate change is caused by periods of increasing or decreasing solar activity.  But of course these facts ruin your little junk science cult which is obviously part of promoting your socialist agenda.