Got this video from Allahpundit at Hot Air. Our illustrious former academic colleague (he started but never finished at Vandy Law) gets a good question from Tom Brokaw: What's with all that talking the environmental talk if you don't walk the environmental walk?
So Al Gore says he isn't perfect and then goes on to say that he's bought all this stuff to offset the carbon outputs. Allah makes the point that if this were really the dire emergency Gore says it is, he and Tipper would be living in a green-friendly shack, riding their bikes around Nashville, and growing their own food. I am more bothered by the fact that we are supposed to absolve Al Gore of his environmental sins because he has all this expensive technology that offsets all of the crap he's putting into the air.
Where does that leave us normal Americans who can't afford to "retrofit" our homes to be environmentally holy with "geothermal systems" and solar panels on our roofs? The point is that given the option between being environmentally conscious and having modern conveniences, we all have a tipping point toward the latter.
My other problem is in how Gore's response sounds so much like a sinning Christian defending himself. It's just another implication that consuming is a "sin" in the eyes of the Church of the Environment. Maybe with all of these green indulgences, it's time for a Reformation. Think Gore and co. will go for it?
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