You know its getting bad for Gore’s environazi crusade when a fellow lefty calls you to the mat: (h/t Newsbusters)
Redford was an early convert to the environmental movement, and talks proudly
of having campaigned on it since 1969. “It was not a happy easy time, because
those were the days that the oil and gas companies pretty much controlled the
show on propaganda. Anyone speaking about solar energy would be smashed down as
being a radical, a tree-hugger and granola-cruncher or what have you.”He is notably cynical, however, about Al Gore’s recent award of a Nobel
Peace Prize. “He’s making a lot of money, he’s having a belle époque, a heroic
moment,” he says. “It must have been really hard for Gore to suffer all that
[losing the presidential election], so he found another thing to come back
with: the environment. He had a lot of money behind him, because in
Clinton’s administration there was a lot of money. With that he was able to
build himself a new campaign and pick an issue. And he picked an issue that just
happened to arrive at its moment in time.” The less-than-subtle subtext
is that Gore is an arriviste, while Redford has been out there, a
grizzled loner, bearing the jibes and right-wing clobbering before the
environmental cause was fashionable. Asked why he thinks Gore is not going back
into politics, he says: “What’s most important – to be a hero to your country
and go save it . . . or do you want to be happy and rich and be a hero and not
get into the political scene?“
As silly and ignorant Redford is, he is most definitely right on about Gore. The man is getting rich beyond his wildest dreams and these young greenies are falling all over themselves ensuring the man gets richer.
Quite funny.
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It’s totally bogus to condemn a man for raising awareness about any issue, ANY ISSUE while making money in the United States. It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE not to take a capitalist approach to even philanthropy in the USA, unless you want to ensure the complete failure of your campaign. Fiscal generativity is a requirement if you don’t want your campaign to lose steam. You need not look further than the elections, which have consistently been won by the candidate who raised the most money (ie: having the largest share of the richest people and corporations on their side). The only voices that have any reach in the United States are voices that have the backing of billions of dollars for ad space and time. There have always been millions of voiceless Americans who have tried to raise awareness about global warming for years now, and the only people able to successfully pull it off in the United States of No Public Space are those that can, at the very least, start an ad campaign or (why not?) make a cheesy, self-aggrandizing film about it. I personally hated the movie but it has been a factor in completely changing the nature of the mainstream discourse around global warming, especially among Republicans. This probably won’t matter to you, but it’s a relief to me that America has finally joined the rest of the post-industrial world to finally wake up to the issue.
Yup, we’ve woken up to what an industry this hysterical nonsense has become. It pays many a paycheck.
Go ahead and follow the herd sheepie, the rest of us can see what this is all about and its not to “save” a planet that isn’t being destroyed in the first place.
Arsalan,
The rest of the world? Really? You did see the Kyoto conference this year where the signers were complaining that they could not meet the insane and idiotic requirements of the accords, while China keeps sending up clouds of pollution, and would ruin their economies if they tried?
“Man made global warming” is a fleecing scam just as the “man made new ice age” was 30 years ago. Same actors, same garbage science, same dire predictions and nothing but these “environmentalists” getting rich of their scams to show for it.