The Real Al Gore (An attack from the left!)

The Nation ^ | from the November 5, 2007 issue | Alexander Cockburn

[SunkenCiv]

Line up some of the more notorious Nobel Peace Prize recipients, such as Kissinger, and if you had to identify the biggest killer of all it was probably Norman Borlaug, one of the architects of the Green Revolution, which unleashed displacement, malnutrition and death across the Third World. If the Kyoto Accords were ever implemented, and they never will be, the net impact on greenhouse gases--99.72 percent of them natural in origin--would be imperceptible, but the devastation to Third World economies and life expectancies would rival that caused by Borlaug's seed strains. Already the hysteria about anthropogenic global warming stoked by Al Gore and the Big Lie gang writing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's press releases has done enormous damage to vital environmental cleanup, sidetracking attention and money from work on sewers, toxic waste sites, filthy smokestacks--not to mention the vast disaster of agricultural pollution... Nuclear power is the hysteria's prime beneficiary... Using the fakery over the supposed effects of man-made greenhouse gases from fossil fuels, the nuclear industry successfully lobbied to pass the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which provides four different kinds of subsidies for atomic power plants... As nuclear plants start to sprout like toadstools across the landscape, it is certainly appropriate to lay a large measure of the blame on Al Gore, who has been a shill for the nuclear industry ever since he came of age as a political harlot for the Oak Ridge Nuclear Laboratory in his home state of Tennessee... The defense contractors always loved Al, the same way the nuclear plant manufacturers do today.

Hey, these are compelling pro-Al arguments. If A Cock Burn is against Gore, what *am* I supposed to do? /sarc

[Berosus]

So Algore is a neo-con? Who’d have thought he was one of us? I’m still chuckling over a quote of his I read yesterday, from the 2000 election: “A zebra cannot change its spots.”

[SunkenCiv]

Gosh, that is true, in a way... ;’)