Al Gore Admits he Makes Money From His Global Warming Fear Mongering

I'm on my second bio-diesel vehicle in 4 years, the first was chevy luv mikado and now I have a vw caddy. I bought the mikado dirt cheap at a wrecking yard and after minor fixes got it up and running for about 800.00 total. Needless to say I was a happy guy (I totally believe in an algae based BD future) and I drove the truck for a few years. However, there did come a time when I needed to sell the mikado because I was going to be driving over a long and rather treacherous stretch of curvy autobahn-like highway (17 btwn SC & LG , for those in the bay area...you know what I'm talking about). So I listed the thing on ebay for 1000.00 and lo and behold, it sold for 3600.00.

People want to spend money to be green. This is a huge mental shift from a decade ago, and it this point it seems to have caught on worldwide. Folks no longer think about whether they should or shouldn't, now they just want direction. There is disinfo everywhere, this is true, but the shift has given people the motivation to be careful about choices they make. We WILL have better and better choices in the future, but we are in a race against time. The ocean CAN NOT absorb the amount of C02 currently being pumped in to the air, and corrections to the imbalance is brewing. Whatever it takes to reduce emissions, I'm behind it. Interestingly, 2012 has been targeted as a "tipping point" date by the IPCC.

"While the population is fooled into the green issues and as Psi said, a collective guilt that "WE" fucked up the planet, the real problems are hidden from daylight; the uncontrolled population boom, the uncontrolled military-industry complex that's spending BILLIONS on weapons and means of destruction, the free looting multinational companies that have no other objective but profit, destroying natural habitats, communities, families along the way."

No guilt necessary, but we have to change our ways, Auton. The uncontrolled population boom and uncontrolled military-industrial complex and free wheeling multinationals are certainly big problems. Our continued dependence on fossil fuels is also a big problem. These are, in fact, interlocking problems. I don't believe anything al gore or anyone else says 100%, and neither do i think that he is engaged in a cynical and unusual plot to make a lot of money. I think he is sincere. I think you are sincere too.
sincerely,
wil

so are we blaming Al Gore for the Chinese wanting to get themselves out of poverty ? Sure the middle class in China are benifiting most, as they do in any society, but the fact is that 40 years ago many Chinse were starving exactly as they are now in Africa.

You will never stop the Chinese trying to develop, if you say this in China they will virtualy hung draw and quater you, and im not just talking about the government there. After 200 years of China being bullied by the colonial powers, especialy the British, there is a hunger there like you wouldnt belive to "get back up there". Sure i dont want to see China make the same mistakes we have - the only hope is for China, and India, to use much greener technologies, many of these are in the pipeline - though i admit this is a very close call.

Im going to do a bit of reaserach on bio-disel as admitedly i dont know a great deal about it, what your saying i guess is its production and transportation produce more pollution than it saves. But as far as i see it Al Gore isnt just pushing that, he is pushing a gneral movment to live more in hamrony with nature and in particular curb green house gases.

I cant see how its bad wal-mart seeling greener products. Would you prefer them to sell products with non-biodegradable chemicals in ? Because one way or another them products are going to get bought. Even if the CEO of Wall Mart decided to close wall mart down, pretending the share holders would support this, there would be another Wall Mart pop up as quick as you can imagine.

Because for sure Auton the mass of the world isnt going to pack there rucksack tommorow and trop off to the hills, and live a pure basic, back to nature lifestyle, like in times gone by. Its just not going to happen dude. You have to be realistic about this.

I completly agree with you that its horrendeous how much money and resources are squandered on millitary. But you show me a time in history Auton when goveremnts didnt do this ? Yes were chnging, and thats good, of course, and the world needs more people like you and the people on here who have a passion for natural things and nature. But your never going to take the masses with you by preaching at them.

Anger doesnt sell dude, you have to be persusive. Show a salesman who sells with anger or judgmental tactics, a salesment who wins over people by giving them anger ?

<<Those, who are "considering going greener" after the Al Gore movie are still the same consumers who happily bought just about anything or everything a decade ago when the mantra was different>>

so isnt this a fantastic thing, that people who didnt give a shit are starting to become more aware ?

I think anger on this issue is misplaced emotion. The whole of human evolution this last 200 years has been heading in this direction, thats not Al Gores fault, its not even the CEO of Exxon's fault, its the tied of history, 100 years ago nobody even knew about global warming, and the majority thought the world was to big for pollution to have a real effect.

Now the society this has created is like a gigantic elephant the size of the planet, the culture and belif systems that come with it are passed from generation to generation and in some people, are very entrenched. Dude it takes time to change that elephant, it not easy. That of course is the enormous challenge of our times.

Sure some companies are blowing a false green whistle, well its the job of pressure groups and peopole like yourself to keep them on there toes and challenge that, hopefuly sometime soon we are going to have a better media system that puts more pressure on these companies and global leaders to make drastic change, and offers the public better info.

I dont agree that technolgy offers no solutions. I think we need to tackle this on both sides, change in habbits and lifestyle AND cleaner technology. What of Googles new solar company who are producing solar film at around 1/5th of normal cost, puting its usage cost below fossile fule ? What of Carbon Capture ?

And what if there is a break through in cold water fussion, some say this could be only 10-20 years ago if well funded, there was an indpendant scientist who posted up to this forum only a month ago who thinks with proper funding it could be that close.

I do wonder i got to say if they did manage to make completly clean energy and biodegradble products, what the poeple who say money, commerce and tehcnology are inherently bad would say then ?

In any revolution, and society does need a real green revolutioon, you need hardliners, people who demand massive change people like you Aunton who demand much more - that pushes the masses and corporations more inline, but drop the anger and hostility- it doesnt sell, and a greener planet is something we despratly need to sell to the masses and government.

For my money, id still say nothing has done that more effectivly than Inconvieniant Truth. Sure we need to go much futher than that, but i completly agree with Will that this US and Them attitude is to simplistic and not constructive.