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Al Gore: What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to Know [video]
- KerrAvon 3y agoTo this day, I can’t read the Joy of Tech comic because I remember their response to Al Gore’s climate activism: “Al Gore is fat, haha”.
- petre 3y agoI can't take him seriously because of South Park.
- nilslindemann 3y agoKeep watching your cartoons and let the adults do climate politics.
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- redeeman 3y agowhen exactly was it al gore predicted the extreme sea rise? :)
- tetris11 3y agoThey did try to back peddle in later episodes, but their apology amounted to mostly "we were a little bit wrong, but you (Al Gore) weren't completely right!"
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- zhengiszen 3y agoThe irony is that he literally helped bomb Iraq (he was Clinton's vice president) for the same oil he's critical about now... What solutions he suggests besides green capitalism ? Hypocrisy is an art
- reducesuffering 3y agoAre you talking about the First Gulf War that he was Clinton's VP for? The one where Iraq invaded Kuwait, and we freed Kuwait from the Iraqi army, destroyed their scud missiles they rained on civilians, and then left keeping Iraq intact?
- credit_guy 3y agoAlso, the one that happened during George H.W. Bush's presidency? Or maybe it's the second one, which happened during George W. Bush's presidency?
- pstuart 3y agoDo you understand what powers the VP has? Do you realize that changing one's mind on new evidence is a sign of intelligence? Do you understand what he's pitching and that the TED talk was just a focus on the fundamentals of the problem (e.g., fossil fuels are a problem and we need to get off them)? Do you know what an ad-hominem attack is, and why they are used?
- credit_guy 3y agoIt looks like for Al Gore climate change is an opportunity to wage class war. And definitely an opportunity to score political points. Yes, oil drilling companies made a lot of money from extracting and selling fossil fuels. Yes, those fossil fuels, once burned, created the mess we are in now. But we were the guys who burned them, we are equally culpable. Instead of appealing to moral outrage, a much simple and equitable solution would be to pass a carbon tax.
- pstuart 3y ago> It looks like for Al Gore climate change is an opportunity to wage class war. I believe the class war maneuvers are coming from the other side, in making climate change a "liberal issue"; therefore it is something to be dismissed and derided. And your answer is carbon tax? That's it? It may help a bit but doesn't address the core issue which is we need to stop using fossil fuels, which means actively investing in alternative energy production and management.
- credit_guy 3y agoBut we are actively investing in green energy production. This year (2023) 85% of the new generation capacity is the US is solar, wind, batteries and nuclear, the remaining 15% coming from natural gas [1]. Virtually all the retired capacity was coal (60%) and natural gas (30%). In the US we are moving away from fossil fuels, and we'll get to net zero well ahead of the 2050 target date. What's Al Gore's problem then? It's easiest to score political points by stoking hate. "How can these guys murder the planet?", basically. Well, these guys are just engaging in a legal and profitable activity. If you don't want them to do that activity, make it illegal or unprofitable (by taxing it). Instead of that, he's trying to shame them out of doing it. Good luck with that. [1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=57340 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=57340
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- RecycledEle 3y agoI just heard a man who bought a multi-million dollar oceanfront home why crying about sea level rise accuse other people of fraud. If sea levels are rising, why are ocean-front homes still a sound investment?
- operatingthetan 3y ago>, why are ocean-front homes still a sound investment? Well they never were, simply because of coastal erosion. Climate change will just accelerate what was already happening.