What Are YOU Doing? February 9, 2007
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What are you doing to save our planet from climate change? I wonder what Al Gore is doing, personally. How big is his house? How many houses does he have? What does he drive? How does he live? The thing that bugs me about most of the Hollywood yes men regarding the environment is what big fat hypocrites they are. They certainly will leave a much bigger “footprint” on the earth with their cars, and huge homes, and lavish lifestyle. So, who are they to say a thing?
I did a bit of a search, and found this:
When it comes to it, what can we do about climate warming?
We can do little about the climate itself, but we could try to stop the increase of atmospheric CO2. Even that task is daunting; it requires that we cut emissions–worldwide–by 60 to 80 percent. In effect, this means cutting energy consumption by comparable amounts–including all transportation, heating, air conditioning, and electricity use. It would have an enormous negative impact on people’s welfare–particularly for the poor and those in developing countries.
Humn, let me evaluate my evil BushhilterCo-self. I drive a minivan that gets good gas milage (especially considering I move a family of 5 kids.) It’s an older (over 9 years) car- I’m not a slave to the excessive consumerism and will probably run this car until it’s dead on the side of the road. I don’t drive excessively. Mostly, because I just don’t want to go to a lot of places. I live in a (very) small house, thus minimizing the amount of heating energy used. And, believe me, seven people in one small house heats up the house a bit on it’s own. We don’t have Air conditioning (although we have window units that are used in the bedrooms if it gets really hot.) My car does not have air conditioning. I think the small house covers the electricity use as well -can’t use THAT much electricity if you don’t have that much to turn “on.”
Well, so I’m leading a rather “green” life if you ask me. Now, what is Hollywood doing besides driving their (new and expensive) Priuses?
Regardless, whether or not a “Climate Change” disaster lies in our future, the answer is new technology (or old, can you say “nuclear energy?”), not punitive measures that will ruin our economy. China builds one new coal-plant per-week. And, the developing countries, unless you prefer they remain mired in poverty, will only have increased energy needs.
I guess being nominated for a nobel peace prize is pr bs. Oh al gore you wind bag you. Seriously though -
I do not know what we can do to make it better, but to joke when facts are true rile me up – especially when we have reports of Bush and co hiding facts about global warming to push his agenda. Whatever… the thing is we have to start to do something – more seriously. This isn’t a right wing left wing issue, we’re one planet.
We recycle, we have low energy bulbs everywhere (here& our huge office) http://www.joannehudson.com and my husband is dying to run his car (a jetta diesal on biofuel)..
I just don’t find some of the facts about global warming funny. As I said perhaps I lost my humor in the past 7 years.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2007-01-30T210856Z_01_N30346494_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-WARMING.xml&WTmodLoc=Home-C1-TopStories-newsOne-3
The documentary was recently nominated for an Oscar, and last week Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Well, since the likes of Yassar Arafat and Tookie Williams were also both nominated for the Nobel, “it” really doesn’t mean that much to me.
Gore was Vice President for 8 years – how come he didn’t push his global catastrophe agenda then? And, no – the debate regarding the “fact” of global warming is not over. Yes, climate is changing, and yes there are gasses in the air that should not be. But, the globe is constantly either heating up, or cooling down, so just how much is due to “man” is unknown. Also, it is pretty much acknowledged, that short of drastic cut-backs, we wouldn’t be able to make much of a dent in the greenhouse gases.
Why is he pushing it now? Politics. How come Kyoto wasn’t approved when Clinton was in power? How come the Democrates don’t ask to bring it up for debate again?
Nobel, Schmobel.
What am I doing?
I drive my gas guzzling Durango all over Detroit.
I’m gonna burn some hydrocarbons and head down to the boat show at Cobo today, then head over to the Winter Blast with my son so I can listen to him complain about how cold it is. I am looking for a sailboat, though. That’s pretty green. I’ll have to drive some more to make up for it.
Mesa – my next car will most likely be a gas guzzler. And I STILL won’t leave as much of an “environmental footprint” as any politician or Hollywood starlet.