(HOW SHOCKING!) Al Gore Advocates...

On Tuesday November 3rd, Al Gore was in New York City launching the sale of his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. This book covers various topics involving ways to "go green." Gore makes a point to say that "he has absolute conviction that we have all of the tools to solve the climate crisis." He goes on to tackle issues such as the role of population growth in the climate crisis. He advocates the education and empowerment of women and the spread of birth control to keep population growth at bay. Also he says we need to keep resource consumption and pollution production in check. Gore brilliantly continues on to tell the skeptics of global warming that they should focus on ending foreign oil dependence by supporting renewable energy sources and that their doubts about "going green"'s impact on the suffering economy would be relieved by many new jobs being created from renewable energy industries. Overall, he says that political and societal willpower are what need to be put into action to solve the crisis, because policies need to be changed and followed.

I sincerely believe that Al Gore is a vain, bitter man that feeds off of his publicity. Nearly everything that he says/writes in his enlightening books could be read in a textbook (or is just plain common sense) and is nothing that the people who actually bother to read his books do not already know. The only thing that Al Gore has done is turned going green into a trend advocated by celebrities, which in return creates MORE pollution. Why? Because now there are countless products (and the majority of them are not biodegradable/recyclable) that have some witty 'going green' slogan written on it---and people buy them like crazy. Ultimately, these products will end up in the same place as all of the paper used to print and publish Gore's book--a landfill.

-Lauren Null

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=al-gore-advocates-for-gender-equali-2009-11-04