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Al Gore was at it again today, speaking before the U.S. House:The. Man. Is. Daft. He can't even begin to separate fact from fiction:WASHINGTON — The United States must immediately freeze carbon dioxide emissions and begin sharp reductions of climate altering greenhouse gases, Al Gore told House lawmakers on Wednesday.
Knowing the impossibility of such an action, the former vice president urged international cooperation to come up with a cost-based system (read: Confiscatory tax measures--ed) for measuring and limiting carbon emissions.
"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, 'well, I read a science fiction novel that tells me it’s not a problem,' " Gore said.
There's a lot of debate right now over the best way to communicate about global warming and get people motivated. Do you scare people or give them hope? What's the right mix?
I think the answer to that depends on where your audience's head is. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. And the Category 5 denial is an enormous obstacle to any discussion of solutions. Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
Question, Al: Just who the hell here is living in a "bubble of unreality"?
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