Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth

Being a hypocrite absolutely and completely destroys his message. He's asking us to change how we live our lives for the greater good of the planet and yet he himself either can't or wont make those same changes? His inability to lead by example is really telling us that while his message is important, living a green lifestyle is too difficult, inconvenient and hard to put into practice, so give it a shot but when it proves to be to hard you can just give up or make excuses. In other words "Meh, saving the planet isn't all that important after all".

I don't know maybe I'm being to harsh perhaps I'm missing Al Gores point, its been awhile since I've seen his movie. Maybe he's telling us that saving the planet is great but private jets, gas guzzling limos, and houses that consume more energy then some small countries are even better! After all the important people can't be expected to be inconvenienced by saving the world...but if you aren't a jet setting, international global warming superstar then you should do the right thing and buy that electric car. Al Gore is super cereal about saving the environment as long as it doesn't make his life any more difficult. Excelsior!

In all seriousness I actually like Al Gore but failing to set an example really castrates his message to the point of near absurdity. People just aren't going to take him or his crusade seriously until he walks the walk and shows the world that it really works, is possible and everyone can do it.



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