Monday, July 09, 2007

SOMETHING LIGHTER

The Concerts Were Live. The Gore Campaign Is Still "Resting" Like That Parrot.

I'm a skeptic that Al Gore is going to jump into the presidential race. I figure assessments of his LiveEarth concert series like this one suggest that he's ridden the global warming issue about as far as it can take him:

Al Gore declared Live Earth “the largest global entertainment event in all of history,” but this seven-continent, multimedia eco-extravaganza was colored by the very complacency it vowed to combat: No matter how dire the problem, the solution can be small and painless...

Unlike benefits for world hunger or genocide, celebrity efforts to curb the greenhouse effect backlash into the glass-house effect: People who own Escalades, private jets and McMansions shouldn’t recycle bromides at people who fail to carpool to work. Carbon-offsetting, the newly fashionable practice of compensating for one’s own carbon emissions by paying into a fund to reduce them elsewhere, may be better than nothing, but to some it sounds too much like rich men paying others to take their place in the draft during the Civil War.

That description comes from those noted right-wing propogandists at the New York Times.

07/09 10:41 AMShare