What about number 8? It appears to be omitted.
8. No more voracious, carbon-swallowing mansions to be owned by politicians or "Rock Stars" and Hollywoodies...
Posted on 06/29/2007 9:40:07 PM PDT by melt
NEW YORK -- Al Gore on Thursday called on people around the world to sign a "7 Point Pledge" promising personal action in curbing global warming.
The former vice president unveiled the pledge at a press conference to promote Live Earth, the July 7 event of concerts stretching across the globe. Gore was joined by Live Earth founder Kevin Wall and Cathy Zoi, the CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection.
Audiences at the eight Live Earth concerts and its many other events will be asked to sign the pledge, also available at http://liveearth.org/?p=95>. Those who sign it promise to pressure their country to sign treaties to cut global warming pollution, personally reduce carbon dioxide pollution, and plant trees, among other things.
"Quite a few of the seven points are directly designed to put pressure on governments and on businesses, but do so by asking people around the world to help to focus that pressure," said Gore.
Gore, Wall and Zoi signed the pledge and were soon thereafter followed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who jointly announced their signing in a press release.
"It's a significant start to what we hope will be a worldwide rollout," Gore told The Associated Press after learning of their signing.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
What about number 8? It appears to be omitted.
8. No more voracious, carbon-swallowing mansions to be owned by politicians or "Rock Stars" and Hollywoodies...
Al, just go away, you need help...
Save a tree, shoot a lawyer.
Goracle is as mad as his followers.
LOL, he should have cleaned up that act before he started this global cooling, warming thing to begin with.
Come on, Al! Why didn’t you do the oath in blood like the kids do?
I PLEDGE:
1. To demand that my country join an international treaty within the next 2 years that cuts global warming pollution by 90% in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth;
2. To take personal action to help solve the climate crisis by reducing my own CO2 pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become “carbon neutral;”
3. To fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store the CO2;
4. To work for a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation;
5. To fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal;
6. To plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and protecting forests; and,
7. To buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crisis and building a sustainable, just, and prosperous world for the 21st century.
“Save a tree, shoot a lawyer.”
That would make a good bumper sticker if it’s not already one.
Al Bore is such a hypocrite. I read about the massive about of energy his home uses. Of course he is always jetting around and riding in nice vehicles. Typical socialist. They on top get to enjoy all the benefits, while us plebians have to cut down our use of luxuries.
Sorry, Fat Albert. If you want us to cut down on energy consumption, you take the lead and set an example. Are you too big to fit through the doors of the metro bus?
Point #1 should be for him to shut his pie hole.
Lawyers should by managed by the state, just like they manage deer herds. Liberal bag limits where they are destroying their environment and a long season so that everybody can get at least one. Throwing money on the ground, or baiting as it is called , should be banned except when the herd is just to big.
8. Buy your carbon credits from me.
“The Soothsayer” a parable.
In a land not far away, a once powerful and vain “soothsayer”- a predictor of the future, called out to the people in the town square and bade them listen to his tale of dire portent.
“A great wrong has been done me when I was deposed as your leader, and continues to be done to this very land.” he said. “You must atone for these crimes, and bow before me as your lord and protector.”
The crowd fell silent. “As proof of what I say, and as a taste of the punishment that can be visited upon this land, I shall cause the sun to dim and then grow dark before your eyes this day.” The people murmured, then openly scoffed at this.
But just then, the sun did actually grow dim, and then turned quite dark. The land was bathed in an eerie pallor, and the stars appeared at midday. The people gasped, and then fell to their knees supplicant to the soothsayer’s will.
They could not dismiss the soothsayer’s power and the wisdom they perceived, and in an instant they were like sheep in his control. High above, the Moon slowly passed from in front of the Sun, and the light of the star shone again upon the land.
Though anyone with knowledge of the heavens could have told you that the darkness at Noon was none of the soothsayer’s doing, it was far too late to change this belief amongst the rabble in the street. The land had a new lord, much to the people’s sorrow and regret, as they eventually realized.
Isn’t that the stuff they introduced into the air processors on Miranda? The stuff that made most of the population lie down and die while the rest turned into crazed, cannibalistic rapists?
I thought that #8 was a promise to use only one square of toilet paper.
30 years of Al Gore's "Global Warming" activism--- and now we suddenly find ourselves in a "Global Warming Emergency". Al Gore is killing the Earth!
I hope one of those points is a pledge from him to stop opening his cupcake hole.
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