| | Here's an article on Al Gore's extravagant energy use and his refusal to cut back, preferring instead to purchase "environmental indulgences", AKA "carbon off-sets". http://www.counterpunch.com/donnelly03222007.html
"Perhaps the biggest pachyderm in the living room is that Al Gore buys his carbon off-sets from himself. No wonder he won't sign the pledge. It would lower the bottom line of his own company. His job, like Strong's, is to cash in on climate change, pimp more feel good indulgences to naïve citizens and use the issue for his third run for president, not to use less energy."
After reading the article, I smell a Strong (as in Maurice Strong) stench of corruption around "the feel-good pimp" Al Gore.
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That we can really address [global warming] by changing our light bulbs, or that we can really make an impact by unplugging our appliances when we‘re not using them, is very much out of whack. So if we're only [going to] do symbolic actions, I would like to suggest a few symbolic actions that…might really mean something. One of them, which is very simple, [of which] 99% of the American population doesn‘t care, is ban private jets. Nobody needs to fly in them, ban them now. And…in addition, let‘s have the NRDC,…the Sierra Club and Greenpeace make it a rule that all of their…members, cannot fly on private jets, they must get their houses off the grid, they must live in the way that they‘re telling everyone else to live. And if they won‘t do that, why should we? And why should we take them seriously?
