Associated Press reports that Al Gore lives in a 10,000 square foot home and paid over $1350/month for his electric bill. In fact, he used more than 10 times the amount of electricity than the average individual living where he does, Nashville. He must not have simply invented the Internet, he must be powering it too. Gore explains it away by saying he purchases his energy from renewable sources. But that is the lie of someone who intentionally disregards the meaning of the word fungible.
You see, he gets his energy from the grid like every one else and every renewable erg that he consumes is one that another can't consume and so must acquire it from a non-renewable source. Just because the energy company has come up with a way of linking a consumer with a source does not mean that consumer has lessened the impact of their energy consumption.
Bleeding Heart Do Gooders, still willing to part me from my money before parting themselves from theirs. I can accept that Al might feel the need to run around the world telling us all about imminent doom, but I don't see how he justifies such an environmentally unfriendly, opulent lifestyle. You'd think he would want to lead by example.
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Why do you think he called it an Uncomfortable Truth?
Pointing out the error of a society, while at the same time being a contributing member of that society does not necessarily make one a hypocrite. What would you suggest Al Gore do? Wind turbines would probably be in violation of his neighborhod association rules. He is hamstrung the same as you...
OK, so he's got a bigger ham, but being successful does not necessirily make someone a hypocrite.
I mean...
OK, he's probably a hypocrite...
but not necessarily so...
Of course... when I wrote "Uncomfortable Truth" I meant "Inconvenient Truth"... brain burp.
john,
Interesting point, but I see a couple of flaws in your logic:
1. Most people, including the Gore's don't have the option of building a house surrounded by a porch to catch the breeze blowing across the multitudinous acreage surrounding their house. Nor can they install 40,000 gallon underground cisterns for passive cooling and irrigation.
2. The whole lambaste is moot if Gore's personal carbon footprint is lower than average, as he claims. The point about energy usage isn't about the energy usage, it's about the CO2. If Gore is willing to spend gobs of money to "buy down" his carbon footprint, that doesn't make him a hypocrite - that just makes him extravagant.
ps
Nice use of the word "meme" in a sentence!
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