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.

[Sub-Driver]

A "carbon neutral lifestyle."???? Whew he's lost it.

[OpusatFR]

Did he stop breathing out or something?

[wideawake]

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

[tdewey10]

I'm pretty neutral towards carbon myself. My favorite element is gold. I hate cobalt though.

[American Quilter]

To quote Napoleon Dynamite: "IDIOT."

[theDentist]

It's the latest Eco Phrase of the Month. Like those "BP" commercials in Winter/Spring this year that ask "What size is your carbon footprint?" to pedestrians, who go "Huh" except for 1, who is Eco Knowledgable.

I pee on their eco footprints.

[wideawake]

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

[Izzy Dunne]

it was a return visit to the western New York think tank

Too bad he drowned in that tank...

[MNlurker]

So how does all of his private jet setting and SUV transportation fit into this?

[TChris]

I'm pretty neutral towards carbon myself. My favorite element is gold. I hate cobalt though.

* chuckle *

Deuterium is pretty nifty stuff, if you like explosions.

[Kieri]

I dunno. Mercury is a hot and heavy topic these days...

[gafusa]

"Carbon neutral" is the biggest scam since "oil for food". Basically you give money to third world politician, who then pockets it but claim he will do something good, like protect the rain forest or some other BS, and you can be like Al Gore, feeling morally superior, not in the real world, by in the twisted liberal fantasy you find yourself unable to escape.

[BenLurkin]

Certifiable

Lunatic.

[Izzy Dunne]

I'm pretty neutral towards carbon myself.

Actually, some forma are quite nice:

[Numbers Guy]

So how does all of his private jet setting and SUV transportation fit into this?

Ah, but he pays others not to use carbon so he can continue to do so. You see, that's the solution--we just all spend thousands of dollars to bribe poor people not to use carbon. Living guilt-free is easy when you're rich like Algore and can afford to pay off others then lecture the rest of us.

[Starboard]

"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.

We know that pattern well. Just like when Al and the Dems ralleyed around Clinton in support of his destructive behavior.

[Blackirish]

The Prince of Dorkness strikes again.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Yep, he's waiting to exhale...

[American Quilter]

"We've fallen into this pattern of consuming more and more and more and I'm part of it, I understand," he said.

Do you suppose Gore realizes he's turning into a tree, and is beginning to fear ending up as a stack of firewood?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

My "Gore-free lifestyle" makes this easy to ignore.