Baraka_Guru

Let's pretend Al Gore had a similar message but a number of decades ago. Let's pretend he had all this evidence that smoking was bad for you, and until then people didn't really know otherwise. Let's pretend he made a sensational film about it in an attempt to mobilize the world against the dangers of smoking. Let's also pretend that not only does Gore chain smoke but that he recently bought shares in Philip Morris.

Would that change the fact that we should probably quit smoking, that we should quit smoking around our children, that pregnant women probably shouldn't smoke?

Okay, he's a fucking hypocrite. But does that mean we should let him ruin a movement toward more sustainable global lifestyles?

I mean, should we let ourselves be bratty about it?

Are we just jealous of his wealth?

Okay, so Gore has failed to live up to his own words. He doesn't practice what he preaches. So tell him to fuck off. He failed to get his own message. Maybe his wealth was like a drug and he couldn't resist. So be it.

As for me, I'm going to continue to be concerned about out little biosphere. I don't know about you, but Gore's actions are of little consequence to my own thoughts on the issue.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot