Gore & the 'carbon neutral' millionaires
You too can be 'carbon neutral' - if you can afford it. Oh it doesn't mean you actually commit to giving up any carbon emissions to actually help the environment 'directly' it just means, if you have enough money, you can buy carbon 'offsets' to assuage moral guilt and personal responsibility.
This was what tripped Al Gore up in the GW hearing this week. Essentially, at least on the issue of GW and by his own objective reasoning he is a moral cripple. The medieval Catholic Church fell for this kind of lame thinking when its increasingly liberality (i.e. making void the actual the historic teachings of the church) introduced Indulgences.The real world was rightly appalled at the ethical vacuity of this kind of practice. If you've got enough money you can buy back your sin and guilt - as for the poor, well tough...Not exactly the kind of self-sacrificing morality that Jesus taught was it?
Here's an excellent piece by Terry Keenan at Fox News yesterday which sets out exactly why the new Green Morality isn't worth the ideology its rooted in. Carbon offsets are already popular and big business, they are going to be around for a while. Don't miss your opportunity to show disgust at even the mere thought of it.
And here's more from the National Post on Gore's recent 'rough ride' over his peculiar brand of Green Morality.
SMEAR ALERT: And finally, there's nothing quite like the smell of yet further moral hypocrisy whenever leftwhinger (sic) liberals cry of "foul!" in order to divert attention from the real issue - whenever their moral hypocrisy has been brought up. Here they are, after the recent assault on Mr Gore's personal ethics - something Gore of course makes an issue, don't forget - accusing Senator James Inhofe and his right hand man Marc Morano of masterminding a 'smear campaign' against Gore.
For the record, I and this site works closely with Senator James Inhofe's office, particularly with Marc Morano. I find that working with men of integrity is a great help whenever Truth becomes an issue, don't you? (I just hope my Vast Rightwing Conspiracy check is in the post...)
Peter C Glover
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The thing about carbon offsets (trees to normal people) is nobody tells us what happens to the carbon when the tree dies. Let's see, plant decomposes, bugs eat it, producing CO2. So carbon offsets is a giant hoax because it is just pushing the CO2 into the air twenty or thrity years later.
Plus what happens when the trees grow in a hot dry environment (which is everywhere on the planet, except for the bits under the ocean, accorsing to the alarmists)?
Consider this just ONE of Australia's SEVERAL bushfires last summer put as much CO2 in a few weeks into the atmosphere as all the cars in the country for a whole year! Planting more trees to offset carbon emissions just provides more fuel for the fire!
And people fall for this!
Keith