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Al Gore made more from the Google IPO in 05/06 than from his climate change advocacy, which is something he pioneered since when he was a conservative Democrat
by akhilcacharya 8y ago
Al Gore made more from the Google IPO in 05/06 than from his climate change advocacy, which is something he pioneered since when he was a conservative Democrat from Tennessee. The idea that it’s a conflict of interest is silly in the grand scheme of things.
- leereeves 8y agoHe was trying to convince people to sacrifice their own lifestyle for the sake of the distant future. Giving people a reason to think his efforts were a money-making scheme was just stupid.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoThis is such a silly canard, outside of the eco-primitivists nobody serious is advocating for wholesale lifestyle deflation.
- leereeves 8y agoThe laughably impotent response to climate change is another issue altogether. Al Gore was telling us that burning fossil fuels was going to destroy the world. The only appropriate response, if that were true, would be immediate "wholesale lifestyle deflation".
- akhilcacharya 8y ago> The only appropriate response, if that were true, That is an absurdly narrow viewpoint for a website dedicated to news about technological advances. I'm honestly astonished.
- leereeves 8y agoYour attitude is inappropriate on a website dedicated to rational discussion. Also, you must be unaware of what Al Gore was saying. "An Inconvenient Truth" predicted horrible things would happen by 2015. That was a very common prediction in the 90s, actually. We're past that now and technological advance is nowhere near eliminating or even reducing climate change. It was obvious even in the 90s that zero-carbon technology wouldn't be ready for decades. The only solution to the doomsday prediction Al Gore was selling 20 years ago was immediate drastic action (which even the Democrats never actually had the will to call for).