“Survival” Costs Dearly

Posted on September 20, 2007 - Filed Under Environmentalism, News

Hi Oz! Today I read that our former Vice-President Al Gore is paying Australia a visit, passionately attacking President Bush and Australia's Prime Minister, John Howard, calling them "the Bonnie and Clyde" outlaws of the global environment. Or course to hear it, one has to pay $1,000 each. Also, for a private 'meet and greet' costs $25,000. The article mentions him paying tribute to two Labor men, Hawke and Carr, and also playing golf with them. To me, that is a double standard - golf and environmentalism. Knowing the resources it takes to maintain golf courses, resources that Australia doesn't really have, and knowing what ecosystems must have been destroyed to even build them, well, I see that as an inconsistancy for one who feels we are close to disaster. He claims, "Climate change is not scientific, political or ideological - It's about survival." This is where I get puzzled. If we are indeed in survival mode, and if I were a wealthy, known person, I wouldn't charge such crazy prices to make these speeches of alarm. Money would be the last thing on my mind. I wouldn't want to speak just to those who could afford it, after all, the world is made up mostly of all us little people, so a message of survival from a millionaire several times over, should be free. ~Boz Other reads: TheAge.com.au Media Ignores Al Gore's Financial Ties to Global Warming

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