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Gore: Take Personal Responsibility To Stem Crisis [had adopted a "carbon neutral lifestyle."....]
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Posted on 07/24/2006 11:52:05 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnbc.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; gore; goregonewild; kook; manbearpig
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To: wideawake
He certainly hasn't adopted a carbohydrate-neutral lifestyle. ROFL ;^D
To: Numbers Guy
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.
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posted on
07/24/2006 5:00:27 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Sub-Driver; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; bitt; dixiechick2000; Smartass; Seadog Bytes; ...
143
posted on
07/24/2006 7:01:01 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: Sub-Driver
It dictates your entire life . . . but it's not a religion?
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:02:08 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: potlatch
I see your getting the hang of that.LOL
145
posted on
07/24/2006 7:31:43 PM PDT
by
Boazo
(From the mind of BOAZO)
To: Boazo
146
posted on
07/24/2006 7:33:43 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: Sub-Driver
"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.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:36:26 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
To: potlatch
I wanna talk about hot air!
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posted on
07/24/2006 8:20:19 PM PDT
by
Smartass
("In God We Trust" - "An informed and knowledgeably citizen is the best defense against tyranny")
To: Smartass
Nobody knows more about it than he does, lol!
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posted on
07/24/2006 8:22:55 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: Sub-Driver
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...
To: wideawake
And manganese is total bullsh*t. Don't get me started on tungsten. Tungsten? That's PC talk. True conservatives call it Wolfram.
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posted on
07/25/2006 5:13:14 AM PDT
by
Toskrin
(It didn't seem nostalgic when I was doing it)
To: meowmeow
I agree, Platinum is pretty cool. Especially when it comes to credit cards....
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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."
153
posted on
07/25/2006 5:40:28 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(All Marines can throw a grenade. The really, really good ones can throw a slider with one.)
To: CheneyChick; meowmeow
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."
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posted on
07/25/2006 5:47:32 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(All Marines can throw a grenade. The really, really good ones can throw a slider with one.)
To: ctdonath2
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.
To: CholeraJoe; CheneyChick; meowmeow
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.)
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:03:58 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
What about Turbonium?
To: CheneyChick
Turbonium?
It will Mendeleavium spinn' in his grave!
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:45:26 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: OpusatFR
But what about the noxious vapours fom his tailpipe? Theyre green house gases too...
To: Sub-Driver
You guys better listen to Al Gore! He's
Super Cereal, you know!
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posted on
07/25/2006 6:53:09 AM PDT
by
Darnright
(http://www.irey.com/)
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