Jonah Goldberg on Gore
Gore says global warming is “a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth.” It’s graver than any war. He compares it to the asteroid that allegedly killed the dinosaurs.But here’s the thing. If there were an asteroid barreling toward Earth, we wouldn’t be talking about changing our lifestyles, nor would we be preaching about reducing, reusing and recycling. We would be building giant wicked-cool lasers and bomb-carrying spaceships to go out and destroy the thing.
But Gore doesn’t want to explore geo-engineering (whereby, for example, we’d add sulfate aerosols or other substances to the atmosphere to mitigate global warming). Why? Because solving the problem isn’t really the point.
As Gore makes it clear in his book, “Earth in the Balance,” he wants to change attitudes more than he wants to solve problems. Indeed, he wants to change attitudes about government as much as he wants to preach environmentalism.
He wants to change attitudes more than he wants to solve problems.
That, in a nutshell, is the core of my disagreement with the environmental movement. It is a church of Gaia and, like most churches, in the end it is more about political control then any professed laudable motives.
Only one word to change in there Dave and it would be perfect…
“…and, like all churches…”