upschuck
Well-Known Member
But they also wouldn't have gone on crusades that the world is ending because of global warming. I guess he doesn't care about future generations, according to himself.
AL GORE'S MASSIVE ENERGY USE!
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DriveInDriveOut
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Isn't he one of the big proponents of carbon credits and offsets though?
With that system he could burn through as much fossil fuel as he wants as long as he has the money to buy the offsets.
newfie
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newsflash a swimming pool is not a sign of wealth and come with many more modestly priced homes.
newfie
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think of all the refugee's he could house in that mansion.
moreluck
golden ticket member
My first thought also!!
watdaflock?
Well-Known Member
How many refugee's do you house in your modest double wide?
upschuck
Well-Known Member
Just the rich man's way of justifying his hypocrisy.
Sportello
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Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter
The claim that Gore and his ilk are hypocrites is a classic conservative attack strategy of redirection (because it ignores the core issue of climate change) and of poisoning the well (because it attempts to discredit the message by discrediting the messenger). This is much easier, and perhaps more rhetorically effective, than debunking climate science itself. That’s why you only see groups like the National Center for Public Policy Research releasing “studies” on Gore’s energy use. NCPPR, which has been funded by oil interests, advocates against policies to fight global warming because it denies that global warming exists. “The world isn’t warming,” the group falsely claimed in a 2014 paper arguing against climate regulations. Thus, it’s in their interest to try to undermine one of the most effective advocates of aggressive climate action.
But the hypocrisy charge simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. An anti-abortion advocate who believes abortion is immoral and should be illegal, but gets one herself, is a hypocrite. But climate change advocates who don’t live a carbon-neutral lifestyle aren’t hypocrites because, for the most part, they’re not asking you to live a carbon-neutral lifestyle. They’re asking governments, utilities, energy companies, and large corporations to increase their use of renewable energy so that you can continue to live your life as you please, without contributing to global warming.
The claim that Gore and his ilk are hypocrites is a classic conservative attack strategy of redirection (because it ignores the core issue of climate change) and of poisoning the well (because it attempts to discredit the message by discrediting the messenger). This is much easier, and perhaps more rhetorically effective, than debunking climate science itself. That’s why you only see groups like the National Center for Public Policy Research releasing “studies” on Gore’s energy use. NCPPR, which has been funded by oil interests, advocates against policies to fight global warming because it denies that global warming exists. “The world isn’t warming,” the group falsely claimed in a 2014 paper arguing against climate regulations. Thus, it’s in their interest to try to undermine one of the most effective advocates of aggressive climate action.
But the hypocrisy charge simply doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. An anti-abortion advocate who believes abortion is immoral and should be illegal, but gets one herself, is a hypocrite. But climate change advocates who don’t live a carbon-neutral lifestyle aren’t hypocrites because, for the most part, they’re not asking you to live a carbon-neutral lifestyle. They’re asking governments, utilities, energy companies, and large corporations to increase their use of renewable energy so that you can continue to live your life as you please, without contributing to global warming.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
I don't think he's advocating for a minimalist lifestyle to save the planet. If he was, then he'd be a hypocrite. I'm not a fan of the carbon offset idea, but it doesn't make him a hypocrite. Out of touch rich elitist? Probably.
upschuck
Well-Known Member
He doesn't practice what he preaches, and his lack of concern for the environment, says a lot more than what he actually says.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
He preaches carbon offsets, you're saying you don't think he buys his fair share?
upschuck
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But why does he have to buy them? Because he uses too many environmentally bad things, too often
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
Right, that's the idea behind carbon offsets....
newfie
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I'm still trying to fill yours up
upschuck
Well-Known Member
Which goes directly against the environment. Wouldn't you think that someone so worried about the environment, would be destroying their offsets(if they actually meant anything), than actually using them?
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
wut
Catatonic
Nine Lives
I'd say he buys 34 families' fair share.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
that's some UPS management math right there.
old habits die hard i guess.
Catatonic
Nine Lives
I guess you have problems dealing with inconvenient truths.
upschuck
Well-Known Member
Exactly, doesn't make sense.
When you purchase an offset, do you just get the warm fuzzies, or something else? Whatever you get, don't use them. Maybe it is a 1%er problem, but I've never seen them to even buy them, so they must be either totally irrelevant, or something an environmental guy shouldn't need.
