Al Gore: More of an Environmental Disaster than a Compact Florescent Light Bulb
Al Gore was recently quoted saying, “There's an African proverb that says, ‘If you want to go quick, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’ We have to go far quickly.” Well, by now the African people are thinking that Al Gore and his environmentalist lunatics can “Go f&%$ themselves.”
It makes me sick to my stomach to think of the arrogance and ignorant condescension instilled in liberal elitists like Al Gore. In his latest scare tactic rhetoric he also spouted, “Worldwide atmospheric carbon has jumped from 280 to 383 parts per million in the last century; the polar icecaps are melting three times faster than anyone's direst prediction; China is on the verge of surpassing the United States for greenhouse gas emissions; bark beetles and wildfires are sweeping across Western forests; temperatures are climbing, sea levels rising, glaciers vanishing. By some estimates, humans must pull 30 gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere to have a shot at reversing such effects.” He closed by saying, “It's going to take a 90-percent decrease in carbon emissions from developed fossil fuel guzzlers like the U.S. and a 50-percent decrease worldwide to get a handle on the problem.”
Really?! I think a “consensus” of economists agree that cutting carbon by 90-percent would put our whole world economy into a depression.
Moreover, allow me to further translate Al Gore’s pathetic attempt to sound intelligent. Over the last hundred years the Earth has warmed half of a degree. This eventually will increase to the point where the whole Earth is on fire. Moreover, it is caused by our own prosperity. Our selfish attempt to provide for our own survival is going to kill us. We should all be ashamed.
So, to solve this problem do the following: 1) Buy compact florescent light bulbs with mercury; 2) walk to work; 3) use toilets without water; 4) drive hybrids; 5) become a vegan (remember that no environmentalists eat meat); 6) support an increase tax on everything, including carbon; 7) sign the Kyoto Treaty regardless if we are the only ones in the world who have to follow it; 8) purchase from Al Gore millions of dollars worth of carbon credits so he can pretend to plant trees; 9) prevent Africa from building coal or oil power plants to save millions of lives; 10) pretend Rachel Carson was a benefit to society; 11) elect Democrats into office; and 12) close your eyes when you see that Al Gore and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fly private jets. This all sounds like the twelve-step plan of “Insane People Anonymous” if you ask me.
I have a better solution: 1) We wait this out to see if there is really a problem; 2) we hold off doing anything drastic until we weight the negative unintended consequences; and 3) we exercise patience until we actually have the technology to accomplish anything of significance.
Until then, for god's sake, just relax.
Devil's Advocate
Editorialist
