Al Gore has an environmental agenda is it worth pursuing?
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Brazil 100% alcohol in car by 2007\nGermany solar power 75% of home will have them by 2010\nAl Gore on to something new!!! NO!!!  Al Gore knows what is going on in the world YES!!!! Al Gore not “staying the course” NO!!! Bush “staying the course” into a brick wall!!! YES!!!!! Bush and his people now willing to change NO!!! our Conservative Views will stop us from growing and the world will pass us by as a country and we will become the little kid on the block with a big stick looking up.
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IT IS NOT GOVERNMENT! IT IS THE PEOPLE IN OFFICE, BUSH AND HIS BAND OF IDIOTS!!!  We have a President that does not care to much for the enviorment and his record proves that!          Instead of fighting pollution, the Bush Administration has undermined critical environmental protections by:\n\n    * Weakening clean air and clean water standards;\n    * Slowing the clean up of toxic waste dumps;\n    * Ignoring global warming;\n    * Breaking its promise to repair and maintain our national parks; and\n    * Undermining protection for public lands. The only people who will benefit from the war on Iraq are the elite wealthy oil men who finance Bush's election campaigns, and people like Bush who have huge personal investments in the oil industry. Oil company profits have already increased by fifty percent this year because of the war, and the invasion hasn't even started yet!   His family made there wealth with oil and continues to stay in bed with them!
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Actually, I'm not sure that Gore is sleazy enough to represent the Democrats. Sure, he's playing grab \n*ss with that Phelps sh*thead, but is that really enough? No long rap sheet of sexual harassment? No dead girls in a submerged car? No treason? No white hood? No 90,000K in a freezer somewhere? He's not an alcoholic? \n\nFace it- in their barrel of scum, he's floating somewhere near the top. And as they are strictly bottom feeders, he doesn't have a chance in hell of the nomination.
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No the Liberals will run on their other agenda;\n\nFree prescription drugs for all (of course that means no more research for the betterment of society down the road).\n\nAmnesty and open borders for those down south.\n\nSoak, I mean tax the rich, but watch they won't define rich because if you have a job - your it.\n\nOr they could adopt Gores Global Warming Agenda...stop all growth, halt all engines, and turn us back to some kind of third world organization.
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Yes. read "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science" by Tom Bethell. You will be amazed with truths about climate change and environmentalism.\nSome examples are: "Environmentalists not so long ago believe the earth was cooling"\nEarth day is a ridculous holiday. Go outside and have some fun.
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I don't like Al Gore all that much....and I am not too sure I like Hilary's cautious speeches...\n\nI don't think either are willing to truly put themeselves "out there" to back up their rhetoric.
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I'd hug the tree. The tree needs to be loved too and we know that Republicans only hug Oil Cans. I am a proud Environmentalist that cares more about the Earth than making money to cut more trees down to own several houses around the Country. Lord knows what will happen to the habitat and balance of nature if they drill in Alaska. I wonder if there are really planning on sending all the animals to live on the moon instead of man !
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No, i agree with the other poster, after doing a stint as a professor he probably has become a better public speaker. \n\nEspecially with his movie out, he is doing his part to help his country.\n\nThe other than the 4th grade level name calling that i am sure others will post. No one can deny Gore is an intellectual
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Well thats Bush's view.  Enviromentalists aren't allowed to relase any information that could suggest a bad future.  The government goes over most policies and takes out any threatening information.  \n\nI support Gore and his decision to make it publicly known.
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I think Al Gore jumps on the warming evidence and assumes the cause.  They just discovered that Antarctica was once tropic.  This planet has gone through ice ages and warming trends over and over.  So far I have seen no proof whatsoever that the current warming trend is anything more sinister than what has happened so many times.  I have looked to find it, expecting to find it, and couldn't find a link.  If someone has one (not a person saying 'it is caused by industrialization' but actual proof of that) I would love to see it.\n\nHaving said that, I think Gore legitimately believes global warming is something that can and should be stopped.  To that extent I believe he is genuine.\n\nWould he make a good President?  - No.
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Your question seems to be: "Is the environment in danger because of you?"  Is this what you mean to ask?  (It's not really clear.)\n\nIf this is your meaning, then on a personal level, I don't feel any more responsible than should the collective human race - and I would add that YES, the human race is a detriment to the environment, very obviously.\n\nThe issue is not whether people are threatening the environment - the issue is how much industrial and economic activity is too much for the environment to accomodate?  We aren't retreating to caves and hunting and gathering, so the question concerns what public policies need we pursue to ensure a sufficiently (not necessarily perfectly) healthy environment for people and wildlife?
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I am ashamed to say, I once almost voted Democratic.\n\nWhen Al Gore was running for President I remember thinking that we needed an environmental leader above all else.  While I was in the voting booth, my hand hovered around the small hole next to his name.  But I just couldn't do it.  I voted for Bush.\n\nLater I realized how ironic the outcomes are when we're so certain of our cause.  The environmentalists of the 1970s scared the public so thoroughly that no nuclear reactors have been built in the U.S. since then.  Practically no oil refineries either.\n\nAs a result, we're terribly dependent on foreign oil, and forced, at great expense and peril to keep order in the Middle East.  One of the founders of Greenpeace recently admitted how wrong he and his buddies were.  Nuclear power would really have been a safe, clean source of energy.  France doesn't have to worry about oil.  They've got lots of nuclear reactors pumping out cheap energy.\n\nThe Democratic party is like a relic from the past.  They haven't had an original, worthwhile idea since the New Deal.\n\nI have heard it said that Republicans act like every day is the 4th of July, while the Democrats act like every day is April 15th.\n\nRegarding the war on terrorism, Liberals have this crazy idea that the terrorists will learn to love us if we leave. Obviously, they don't use a calendar, because 9-11 happened BEFORE we invaded Iraq. Terrorists don't need a reason to create mayhem. They just need an excuse, and the fact that we are infidels is all the excuse they ever need.\n\nRonald Reagan once said, "they say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us." Reagan knew that the Soviet Union was like a big, hungry bear, and that by feeding it, he would only encourage the bear to get stronger and dominate the world to an even greater degree.\n\nYou can't back down from terrorists. They will not learn to love us. When Israel made huge concessions to the Palestinians, the terrorists weren't grateful. The terrorists just saw this as a sign of weakness. They said, "we're winning.... let's keep pummelling Israel and we'll get more".\n\nLiberals just don't understand. They live in a fantasy world.
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I would say it is the opposite if you categorize it by political party but it actually most likely crosses party lines.  In terms of Environmental extremists who think we are destroying the planet just really don't know the facts at all.  People who supposedly "don't care about the environment" just have a better understanding and know that we are not destroying the earth and don't see a need for a call to global saving action.  The have basic concerns like local pollution, littering, clean water things like that, everyone cares about things like that.  But the notion that we control the environment and global climate change etc...is ridiculous.  I would advise more people educating themselves on the facts and be rational not relational.  A great book to read is Trashing The Planet by Dixie Lee Ray as a starter and she lists several good resources that area also good things to read.  I gained a lot of knowledge after studying environmental effects for over 2 years and writing a report on my findings.  As far as Al Gore and George Bush, Bush far better understands the truth behind the environment and knows a lot of what Al Gore says is not true or accurate.  So why would he waste his time dealing with things that are not as dire as they are believed to be.  \n\nA few missed facts:\nThere are more trees in the U.S. now than there were 100 years ago.  \nThe Earth is a remarkable machine that has a self-cleansing process to digest much of the pollution produced.\n"A 1995 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\n(IPCC)... wrote that some 90 billion tons of carbon as carbon dioxide\nannually circulate between the earth's ocean and the atmosphere, and\nanother 60 billion tons exchange between the vegetation and the\natmosphere. Compared to man-made sources' emission of about 5 to 6\nbillion tons per year, the natural sources would then account for more\nthan 95 percent of all atmospheric carbon dioxide."\nRain Forests while nice to have are not the only source for oxygen production on Earth. in fact the comprise a small amount of area globally to influence much.  50% of oxygen production is done in the oceans.  I am not saying I don't care about rain forests but that they are dynamically changing naturally and if they were gone our climate would not be as effected as some would have you believe.\n\nThese are just a few points.\n\nI really have to agree with retrotrancer.  I too remember the pending ice age scare.  One of the large contributors to this movement was Paul Ehrlich who was also the dooms-dayer about a population boom.  He has been proven so many times, and yet honored by the Sierra club, world wildlife fund, and numerous other organizations.  He then in the 80's was talking about global warming not cooling.  They have no clue.  Read the book Eco-scam from by Ronald Bailey.  This is the thing with libs, it doesn't mater if you are right or wrong just if you feel and are caring.\n\nEnvironmental extremist just don't know the facts.  They are so far off on so many points it is unbelievable.  I have to believe the only people who still believe in this stuff just have not taken the time to really look into it but just listen to the info given to them from the Media or liberal agendas.
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Yes and No. \nI think a course or two in which students engage in discussions about climate change, conscientious consumerism, fuel emissions, alternative power sources, pesticides, genetically modified food, human/environment interaction and its role in child health/development, the EPA and what it does/does not do, lobbying groups, waste/recycling, and other "hot topics" would be benefitial to all of us, but I don't think the courses should label themselves as explicity pro-environment/environmentalist. \n\nThe facts should speak for themselves. Give people the chance to learn about the environment, how it impacts their lives, and what their choices are, and I believe they will choose the right (the green/pro-environment) path.
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Correct. The man's a nut case - global warming is mainly from his hot air, but is otherwise a myth.
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Ask Al Gore.  I think he has a spare on nowadays.
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The latter. Vote for Gore. He should have won, anyway. GW's brother Jeb had other plans in Dade County Florida.