'Civil disobedience has a role to play' | Al Gore

guardian.co.uk ^ | Nov 7, 20009 | Oliver Burkeman

[smokingfrog]

Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the man who helped save the planet?

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When making his Oscar-winning 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Gore arguably had it easy: it's fairly straightforward to grip an audience when you're portraying scenes of apocalyptic destruction. The new book pulls off a considerably more impressive feat. It focuses on solving the crisis, yet manages to be absorbing on a topic that is all too often – can we just come clean about this, please? – crushingly boring. Importantly, it seeks to enlist readers as political advocates for the cause, rather than just urging them to turn down the heating. "It's important to change lightbulbs," he says, in a well-burnished soundbite, "but more important to change policies and laws." Or perhaps to break laws instead: peaceful occupations of the kind witnessed recently in the UK, he predicts, are only going to become more widespread. "Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. And I expect that it will increase, no question about it." People sometimes express incredulity that Gore, who was groomed for the presidency almost since birth, seems so resolved that he'll never return to electoral politics. But here's a vivid example of the benefits of life on the outside: how many serving politicians would feel able to come so close to urging people to commit trespass?

[smokingfrog]

A real 'barf alert' if you read the whole article.

Our Choice: A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis

How is Al Gore doing on the sale of his new book these days?

About a week ago, it was #15 on the NYT trade paperbacks list. Not doing so well now.

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #280 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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I THINK THAT HE DAD AND HIS FAMILY FORTUNE WAS MADE OFF COAL MINING

[rfp1234]

Goron: ask your CRU buddies if fudging data counts as ‘civil disobedience’!

[Alas Babylon!]

EXCEPT when that civil disobedience is against him at his lying “Book Signing-Making Millions off the Suckers” tour.

Try that with him and security will give you the bum rush right out the door.

[HardStarboard]

>>> I THINK THAT HE DAD AND HIS FAMILY FORTUNE WAS MADE OFF COAL MINING<<<

It was Occidental Petroleum!

[4rcane]

ppl who engage in civil disobedience are considered angry mobs

[Revel]

GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE!

[C19fan]

then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

Would that include using incandessant bulbs?

[tired&retired]

I recently watched the “Incomplete Truth” for the first time. It would be an excellent source of film clips against the whole global warming argument if you listen to it in light of the questionable data available now.

[JPG]

We'll see how happy algore will be when thousands of angry Americans are occupying his property and pounding on his front door.

[Mr_Moonlight]

"Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. And I expect that it will increase, no question about it."

Yep, Algore's proclamation is right on target .. yep, it really is. Except that he and his ilk will be on the receiving end of said 'civil disobedience' ... gotta suck for Algore to be proclaiming "Stick It To The Man" when one has become "The Man"!

/laughs

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You want civil disobedience, Fat Al? Wait’ll electricity rates quadruple and gasoline is rationed and triples in price and home heating oil can’t be bought for any price and concrete prices quadruple because of the ban on calcining cement and our energy supply is unreliable because of wind and solar and there’s no fresh water available for families and farmers because the ethanol plants are gobbling it all up and poor families around the globe are starving because we put grain in our gas tanks instead of drilling for oil.

Whew.

Yeah, just wait for the real civil disobedience. People have (hopefully) had their fill of your crap and the crap spewed by your lying phony science buddies.

[eclecticEel]

Totalitarians promoting civil disobedience, there’s a laugh.

[Dick Bachert]

Oh, Gore will be quite famous -- or INFAMOUS -- before this all shakes out.

A very bitter former Senator and Vice President Al Gore seen here en-route back to prison after a federal appeals court refused to review his 20 year sentence for his lead role as spokesperson in the “Climategate” fraud conspiracy. The same court recently rejected the appeals of the lengthy sentences of the 137 alleged UN “scientists” – Gore’s co-conspirators – for falsifying data supporting so-called Cap and Trade legislation that trial testimony disclosed would have virtually destroyed what remained of the U.S. economy while unjustly enriching Gore and a cabal of insiders.

[DCPatriot]

'Civil disobedience has a role to play' | Al Gore

You betcha, AAALLLLL!

[gibtx2]

EXCELLENT

[eyedigress]

I'm a nut children, you will soon see.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[smokingfrog]

That would be a dream come true.

[Publius6961]

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