Gore: Take Personal Responsibility To Stem Crisis [had adopted a "carbon neutral lifestyle."....]

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[Sub-Driver]

Gore: Take Personal Responsibility To Stem Crisis

POSTED: 2:27 pm EDT July 24, 2006 UPDATED: 2:30 pm EDT July 24, 2006

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. -- Former Vice President Al Gore said his conscience is regularly challenged by a consumerism that contributes to the global warming he has made it his mission to reverse.

"It is so hard for those of us who want to live according to our values," Gore said Monday at the Chautauqua Institution, during the latest of countless lectures he has given on the topic.

"We're embedded in a culture that makes it so easy to just go with the flow and support a pattern that's horribly destructive," he said. "And so we need to address this personally."

For Gore, it was a return visit to the western New York think tank used by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, for debate preparation during campaigns. Gore lectured on global warming here in 1990.

Since then, the consensus that the planet is in crisis has grown stronger, he said, and the ability to make the point is not cluttered by campaign issues like the economy and health care.

"This is by far the most serious challenge that we face or have ever faced," he said during the 90-minute appearance. "None of the other ones will matter if we don't get this right."

Later, Gore planned to sign copies of his book, "An Inconvenient Truth." The related documentary film was being shown on campus.

[Right_in_Virginia]

He certainly hasn't adopted a carbohydrate-neutral lifestyle.

ROFL ;^D

[Right Wing Assault]

Ah, but he pays others not to use carbon so he can continue to do so.

So this is something the wealthy can do but I can't. Discrimination! Maybe I'll have to declare myself "third world" and he can give me some of that money and I'll plant a tree.

[potlatch]

[ChadGore]

It dictates your entire life . . . but it's not a religion?

[Boazo]

I see your getting the hang of that.LOL

[potlatch]

Hope so Boazo, lol.

[denydenydeny]

"It is so hard for those of us who want to live according to our values,"

Pompous ass.

Narcissism always goes hand in hand with environmentalism.

[Smartass]

I wanna talk about hot air!

 

[potlatch]

Nobody knows more about it than he does, lol!

[eeriegeno]

For Gore, it was a return visit to the western New York think tank used by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, for debate preparation during campaigns. Gore lectured on global warming here in 1990.

The 'western NY think tank', IMHO, is nothing more than a gathering of philthy rich liberal hypocrites who think of themselves with fondness! Count the SUV's at the Institute, then restate that carbon-neutral thingy again!!!

It seems that Gore would fit right in with this crowd...

[Toskrin]

And manganese is total bullsh*t. Don't get me started on tungsten.

Tungsten? That's PC talk. True conservatives call it Wolfram.

[CheneyChick]

I agree, Platinum is pretty cool. Especially when it comes to credit cards....

[CholeraJoe]

Ever since you posted about dueterium, I've been having Air Force flashbacks. This nerd in glasses keeps coming into my bedroom with a double-combination strongbox and saying, "Colonel, it's another CNWDDI telex."

[CholeraJoe]

Speaking of platinum, do you know where the largest platinum mine in the world is? You'd never guess - Columbus, Montana.

Stillwater Mining Company. "Nothing's so precious as a hole in the ground."

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Dear God . . . thanks for the information.

Basically, then, what Al Gore is proposing is that we all sit around and do nothing, because doing something undeniably leads to the environment going to Hell, except if you're very very careful and plant a sequoia each time you exhale.

Methinks the lads at South Park should create an episode based on "a day in the life" of Carbon-Neutral Al Gore.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Speaking of platinum, do you know where the largest platinum mine in the world is? You'd never guess - Columbus, Montana.

And manganese? Ans: Climax, Colorado.


(For those who don't like cobalt, but get a rise out of hard metal.)

[CheneyChick]

What about Turbonium?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Turbonium?


It will Mendeleavium spinn' in his grave!

[ketelone]

But what about the noxious vapours fom his tailpipe? Theyre green house gases too...

[Darnright]

You guys better listen to Al Gore! He's Super Cereal, you know!