One of the reasons I have severe issues about the public side of the environmental movement is that it really comes across as religious based claptrap. You say this to someone on that side of the argument, however, and they deny utterly that it’s on the road to becoming a pseudo religious movement. But when I read something like this, I really have to ask whether, in fact, anyone can stand over the idea that climate change is anything other than a religious movement.
In other words, Al Gore is about to do more harm to the environmental movement than I thought one man could do on his own. This is regretable because while there has been a huge focus on climate change, there are other matters which need to be dealt with on the sustainable living front, on the protection of human beings and habitats that get completely muffled in the sound of his voice. Now he wants to co-opt organised religion. That is not very scientific to be blunt about it.
I really don’t know what to do. Andrew Simms continues to count down the 100 months that we have left to survive on this planet (I can’t wait for month 101 – we are on 15 at the moment, ie, 85 left to go in his Countdown of Doom). Every single natural disaster seems to be blamed on global warming lately and something which is highly complex is being binaried out into simplistic and fundamentally inaccurate slogans.
I wonder if the world would be any better off if Al Gore had received his glory moment of being President of the USA. If it had, there’s a chance he might have done that for 4 years instead of still being here like almost 10 years after he got defeated.
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