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Originally Posted by ikestoys
Don't say stupid stuff, you won't be engaged.
That explains your history of saying stupid stuff. You like to be engaged.
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Al Gore has a pretty obvious public stance on conservation and lowering CO2 use. Him using massive amounts unnecessarily would obviously be hypocritical.
No. you are omitting the whole part of Gore's thesis that one can contribute to CO2 use if one does something to counter it. A simple example would be that a company can have a large carbon footprint but counter it by planting trees, using renewable energy sources, investing in cleaner technologies, etc.
Furthermore, the people criticizing Gore:
(1) do nothing to diminish his arguments as whether or not he's a hypocrite has no bearing on the validity of the message and
(2) ignore where's he's addressed what he does about his carbon footprint (consistent with his rhetoric)
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Gore: I use only carbon-free electricity. Have 33 solar panels on my roof, seven deep geothermal wells under my driveway, LED lights and highest-grade energy-saving windows, max insulation, hybrid plug-in car, etc. No fountains, btw. What you can do? Make smart choices for low-carbon options in the marketplace, make sure you divest from carbon-intensive stocks; be a smart and active citiizen! Let politicians know the climate crisis MATTERS to you -- A LOT -- that you will WORK and contribute to candidates who really champion solutions -- and that you will seriously work hard to DEFEAT candidates who ignore climate or take the wrong positions on climate. Help put a price on carbon in the market and put a price on denial in the political system.
Although you could surprise me I would actually have given you the benefit of the doubt that you knew that Gore's ideas including the idea of carbon emission trading. If in fact you knew this and your reply above (the quality Ikesian response of "no") then you were knowing being wrong. And if you didn't know it then I apologize for assuming you actually knew about what his ideas were since you were saying I was wrong.
Now you may return to ikesing up all the other threads.