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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-21-07 09:30 PM
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Al Gore's Environmental Footprint is Irrelevant (from Grist magazine)
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A really good response to Sean Hannity's ridiculous charges:

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/21/113953/985

Having finally gotten the memo that the debate on climate change science is over, conservatives now need a new attack on green advocates. It appears they're reverting to an old standby: hypocrisy. Watch (via Hugg) as FOX News' Sean Hannity lays out the charge against Al Gore:

http://www.hugg.com/story/Sean-Hannity-Tells-Al-Gore-How-To-Save-Polar-Bears/

The hypocrisy attack on environmentalists is extremely common, so it's worth discussing why it's almost entirely bogus. I've inveighed against it numerous times (see here, here, here, here, and here LINKS IN STORY), but once more for the cheap seats.

Hannity fails to mention that Al Gore works hard to mitigate his impact on the climate. Gore purchases offsets to account for the carbon emissions of all his air travel, just as he did for his movie and his book. He purchases green power for his home, drives a hybrid, and flies commercial when possible. But he's no doubt slipped up and there's no doubt more he could do. A snide, tabloidy cable-TV debate over Gore's personal rectitude is just what conservatives want. It's red meat and character assassination rather than substantive policy debate (i.e., it's FOX).

But it's utterly beside the point. Nobody -- least of all Al Gore -- would claim that it's possible in today's world to be a high-profile issue advocate without negatively affecting the environment. It's scarcely possible to be a functioning citizen of a developed country without having a substantial environmental footprint.

MUCH MORE AT FIRST LINK ABOVE
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