Re: NDC-Al Gore invented being a hypocrite


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Op ed from USA today

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060810/cm_usatoday/goreisntquiteasgreenashesledtheworldtobelieve;_ylt=AgJMajJbQTMEdTU3dxfZD6Cs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ
<YAWN> Gee, imagine that, a politician who is a hypocrite. That NEVER
happens#####
So what. The bottomline is that whether Al practices what he preaches is
completely irrelevant.

True to a point, but did you see how much energy his family uses up? I
understand he is doing a good thing to make folks aware of global warming,
but doesn't _someone_ have to set an example? Does he really have to
travel in a private jet? Does he really need 3 large homes? While I have
no problem with him having homes and private jets, he could set a better
example to those of us who live below their means and consume a minimum of
resources.

I am not a Gore fan, I haven't seen his movie (I will probably rent the DVD
at some point)
Personally I don't care WTF Gore does with his money, how many homes he owns
or how he travels. I don't use Al as a role model for how I live my life

IMVHO, this is akin to the Surgeon General being a smoker. YMMV

He happens to be right about global warming. Whatever the cause is, the
Earth IS getting warmer, and fossil fuels do release carbon dioxide into
the atmosphere.

Agreed. And Mr. Gore and his family are burning much more of those fossil
fuels than most people in the world.

So does anyone who lives in the United States. We use something like a
quarter of the worlds energy. Again, I could care less about Gore. So he
doesn't practice what he preaches. If I had a nicke; for everytime a
politician commited some act of hypocrisy I wouldn't have to get up every
morning at 5:45 and go to work.

To me the REAL hypocrisy/irony is that "conservatives" like the
hillybilly heroin addict, anorexic blond ***, and that dope Sean Hannity
put down anybody who suggests that environmental conservation is akin to
being a left wing looney. Just another reason that so called
conservatives are anything but conservative. They refuse to acknowledge
something that NASA has been documenting for over two decades (and NASA
is REAL left wing organization#####). The world IS getting warmer, the
ozone layer is getting thinner, and the polar ice caps are shrinking.
That isn't propaganda being put out by tree hugging wackos, it is hard
data being collected by several government agencies, specificly NASA and
NOAA.

I have spent over 35 years sailing, hiking, camping, rock climbing and
skiing. IMO environmental conservation is probably the most important
thing we can do, not to save the planet, but to save ourselves. The
planet will be here for billions of years, no matter what. Mankind has a
much more finite time here.

Additionally, if we actually did find non fossil fuel sources of energy,
we could tell OPEC to go *** themselves, and it would dry up much of the
money that Al Quadda has to launch terrorist attacks. It is a win/win
situation for the United States, but the so called "conservatives" who
dominate the media are either too stupid or too dishonest to recognize
any of the facts that are out there.

100% in agreement with you on all points. I've been going hiking and
spending weeks on the ocean(s) since I was 17 and its pretty sad how
things are going.

Yes it is. Although I have to say that it many spots the air and water is
actually cleaner than when I was a kid. I used to spend summers at my
grandparents beach house in Amagansett, NY (the end of Long Island) When I
was a kid we used to get "tar balls" on our feet from walking on the beach.
There were quite a few ships that were sunk by German U-boats off the coast
of Long Island during WWII and many of the ships were releasing bunker oil
into the ocean even after 25 years. I remember having to wash my feet with
lighter fluid before my Grandmother let me in the house. By the 80's that
wasn't an issue anymore. The "tar balls" had gone away.

The same thing with lots of rivers. The Merrimack River, which flows through
Lowell, was disgusting 25 years ago. It is clean enough to swim in today. So
it isn't all bad news, but the flip side of that is when I hike the
Massachusetts section of the Appalachian Trail with Matt and his Boy Scout
Troop several years ago, there is a section near the old GE plant in
Pittsfield that has huge chain link fences (WITH barbed wire on top) that
has big signs warning about the PCB contaminated soil, and water. It is one
of the "Superfund" sights, but I doubt it will ever be safe in my lifetime.
To many places like that and "Love Canal", where corporate America took a
giant *** and never used a pooper scooper.

Scot


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