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AL GORE'S MASSIVE ENERGY USE!
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<blockquote data-quote="Sportello" data-source="post: 3009117" data-attributes="member: 55299"><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/144199/al-gores-carbon-footprint-doesnt-matter" target="_blank">Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter</a></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>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 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151112222903/http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA659.html" target="_blank">falsely claimed</a> 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.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>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</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sportello, post: 3009117, member: 55299"] [URL="https://newrepublic.com/article/144199/al-gores-carbon-footprint-doesnt-matter"]Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter[/URL] [I] 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 [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20151112222903/http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA659.html']falsely claimed[/URL] 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[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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