Al Gore, “Energy Hog” Hypocrite
For nearly two-and-a-half decades, Al Gore has been the most recognizable face of environmentalism on the planet. As a U.S. representative, U.S. senator, U.S. vice president, and globe-trotting author and film producer, Al Gore has ridden global warming and other environmental hot-button issues to media stardom. In 1992, with a copy of his just-released best-selling book, Earth in the Balance, he led a delegation of U.S. senators to the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which was the launch pad for the global-warming alarmism movement. A core message of that movement is that our planet is in dire crisis, and in order to avert imminent catastrophe we (humanity) must radically change our consumption, individually, at the personal level, and collectively at the global level.
In his book Earth in the Balance, then-Senator Gore warned that we are “facing a rapidly deteriorating global environment” that, due to our complacency, “threatens absolute disaster.” “We must all become partners in a bold effort to change the very foundation of our civilization,” he continued, stating further: “But I believe deeply that true change is possible only when it begins inside the person who is advocating it. Mahatma Gandhi said it well: ‘We must be the change we wish to see in the world.’”
“On a personal level,” Gore went on, “this has meant reexamining my relationship to the environment in large and small ways … [including] keeping a careful eye on our household’s use of electricity, water, and, indeed, every kind of resource.”
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