Al Gore's "Assault on Reason"

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Darwood @ 2007 Jun 1 11:59 AM) [snapback]453407[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(R1200GS @ 2007 Jun 1 2:11 PM) [snapback]453532[/snapback]</div>

It's not exactly my idea, but it's one that's been on my mind since a "Theory of Accounting' course back in university. It's the sytem we have now that's not feasible. The costs are all too real; the problem is that they're not included in the price. We should know what we're voting for with our dollars. This is the Information Age, is it not? 'Cost stickers' right beside the price sticker on every commodity should tell us how much greenhouse gas was produced, how many trees were felled, and how much soil and water were polluted in the creation and distribution of the product. Given that kind of information, I hunch our buying habits would change pretty quickly.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Darwood @ Jun 1 2007, 11:59 AM) [snapback]453407[/snapback]</div>

I think Amory and Hunter Lovins would disagree, so would Paul Hawkin and Ray Anderson (Interface Inc.). With government maintaining an equal playing field, ecologically aware corporations could indeed profit, increase efficiency, and maintain their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. For a very interesting example of this look up Interface Inc. and how Ray Anderson promoted a change that accomplished all of the above mentioned benefits.

From the Interface Inc. website: For more info visit their sustainability site which includes summary reports on their practices.

 

Why is this a "Prius Main" topic?

 

good question....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ethereal @ Jun 1 2007, 06:35 PM) [snapback]453695[/snapback]</div>

Probably meant to appeal to the largest crowd who might be interested in going to the siging. If it was in the Enviro forum only a handful of people would likely see it. Since it wasn't designed as a debate thread I could understand that even if it wasn't right.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Darwood @ Jun 1 2007, 01:22 PM) [snapback]453326[/snapback]</div>

(Bolding in above post mine)

You used the "f" word; this word has been missing from corporate thinking for at least the last 20 years (I'm probably underestimating this length of time, but this is when I think it became more apparent)...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Jun 1 2007, 10:49 PM) [snapback]453737[/snapback]</div>

I thought maybe AlGor invented the Prius, too.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveinOlyWA @ Jun 2 2007, 11:31 AM) [snapback]453908[/snapback]</div>

Given the level of interest, maybe we should ask Danny to add a new forum: the Al Gore Paradise!

 

Yeah. lets stop talking about AL GORE and lets get back to what we were really talking about (thats really been beat to death) and the people that ignore all the debate and information and only see AL Gore can maybe get something better to do then just seeing AL GORE everywhere because man i'm with them. Enough about AL GORE....

 

just ran over this thought it was cute.

"...trying not to trip over their heels as they pedal through a series of fallback positions. (1) Global warming is a hoax perpetrated by liberal social engineers scheming to hamstring growth, ban S.U.V.'s, and traduce property rights(protecting some endangered species' nesting habitats and preventing the construction of commercial eyesores).

(2)O.K. it's not a hoax, but mankind isn't at fault; pollution isn't to blame-it's the natural result of solar activity or the product of a super cyclical trend (the thesis of a new book by S Fred Singer and Dennis T Avery, unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years).

(3) Maybe Global warming is partly mankind's responsibility, but the cure could be worse than the disease, requiring exorbitant regulation that would stifle, even strangle, the animal spirits of free enterprise.

(4) Yes, global warming is a fateful challenge; it's here and it's real, but mankind has always met adversity with resourceful determination--innovative tehnologies will cme along that will allow America not merely to survive but prevail, while the rest of the world fends for itself.
What's missing is the call for any real effort or cost or scacrifice, anything that would require even minor alteration of comfortable routines....

-James Wolcott
"Rush to Judgment" pg 100-106, Vanity Fair magazine May 2007 No 561


i've been reading this thread from the beginning and thought anyone who didnt want to go through it all could catch up real quick.

the tagging of global warming as ALGORE was also mentioned. funny that this stuff works and we're witnessing it...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DaveinOlyWA @ Jun 5 2007, 08:33 AM) [snapback]455682[/snapback]</div>

I don't care what you say. I'm still pissed at Ralph Nader.

Dave M.