Al Gore's movie really makes me long to know, if in a parallel universe he had won the Presidency instead of Bush 1 or Bush 2, what the world would be like today. I think Gore would have focused on improving the world. I wonder how he would have responded to the 9/11 attack? Would he have waged this War on Terrorism? Would there be troops in Iraq? Would Sadaam have been captured? Good and bad things have come from Bush's administration. In my current optimistic mindset, and having just watched An Inconvenient Truth, I can only imagine that good things would have come from Gore had he been elected President.
What, specifically, do you think Gore would have accomplished to make the world a better place?
Let's start with CO2 emissions. Let's say that he got elected and was able to take his hypothesis about CO2 from humans causing global warming.
Okay. Do you think your life would be better if we instituted a program in which no one was allowed to commute more than say 10 miles to work?
If we want to really reduce CO2 emissions, if they really are the boogeyman, then let's talk about what it would take:
- Elimination of long-distance commutting would significantly reduce US CO2 emissions.
- Outlawing of air conditioning if indoor temperature is less than 80 degrees.
- Elimination of private jets.
Those are the 3 most obvious things we could do to make a significant, immediate affect to CO2 emisissions.
Are you willing to do this? Would this make your life better? Or do you really mean that you want a President who proclaims that we should do something and not that we actually do anything.
BTW, I commute 6 miles to work, fly on commercial airlines, and keep the air conditioner off unless it's over 80. Al Gore, by contrast, does none of these things - yet he's the one proclaiming the coming environmental apocalypse due to CO2 use.
