Go Gore!!

I love AL Gore, one sensible voice among sheer madness, if he had been President the last eight years would have been completely different, no war, no letting oil companies charge any price they want unchallenged etc etc.... maybe we could have had a chance to turn things around... and think this was all decided by a couple of judges...

Now back to the real world. IT IS TOO LATE NOW.

We cant and wont go all renewable in ten years, we all know how uninformed and apathetic everyone is, they wont do a thing till the seawater is up to their necks, and of course it wont matter then.

In 22 yrs the human race will reach and then exceed the capacity of the earth to support human life, and you can bet its going to get more and more unpleasant as we rush headlong to this point.

There are just TOO MANY PEOPLE and more on the way. Even if every single person on earth went green today and all the energy sectors as well it wont matter, we will still use up resources.

And the amount of co2 and methane etc win the atmosphere will be here for decades continuing to warm the atmosphere.

Face we are looking at an up to 200 ft sea level rise in the coming years not decades. As population grows the earths carrying capacity will fall due to climate change.

Billions will die. Billions

We need to face the sort of world that is coming and figure out how to survive it as a civilization.

In a sad twisted fate the loss of billions of lives due to horrible suffering is ironically the only thing that can in the long term help the planet...

Now theres something to think about...

Gore has let his mask slip. When Gore advocates that the single most important policy change would be to "tax what we burn - not what we earn", he really means we should shift the burden of taxation away from the rich capitalist towards the rest of society since a person earning ten million dollars doesn't burn one thousand times as much fuel as a person earning ten thousand. Indeed, a shift of taxation onto to the "burners" will further burden the workers who have to travel long distances since either they don't live near their place of work (due to the high cost of accommodation in these central locations), or who have to travel due to their work (e.g. truck drivers or traveling salesmen).

The rich capitalists also have the option of staying overseas (whether in Dubai, Moneco or Israel) thus avoiding paying these fuel taxes which the US tax payers will be lumbered with. As a double-whammy, a considerable amount of this money which is then channeled to Israel, further assisting the dual-nationals. I smell a small conflict of interest here, not least since most senators and congressmen are multi-millionaires, so they are voting themselves a tax cut, whilst lumbering the rest of the US tax payers with the bill. No change there then.

This man will go down in history. I can't thank him enough for all his work. This speech was really powerful - at least to me and I feel a bit of hope that we might avert the worst. This bit of hope is a big deal to me.