Al Gore - Kill The Messenger

The message is finally starting to take hold with the average American; global warming is real and is a serious threat. Yet conservative groups continue to try to discredit the message and are now trying to discredit the messenger. The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is putting Al Gore under fire for owning a mansion while educating the public on global warming.
The “hypocrisy” in owning a mansion is that large homes consume more energy than small homes. They call him a hypocrite for having a large house while preaching environmental responsibility.
Al Gore not only can afford a mansion, he can afford to invest in offsetting amounts of renewable energy, and he does. The Gore family maintains a zero net effect on the environment in terms of energy consumed. Few people have achieved that. Few people bother to try.
It is vital the message of global warming reaches the masses quickly. One of the reasons Al Gore is able to reach many more people than other messengers is that he makes helping the cause seem “doable” to the average person.
I saw a clip on television of Ed Begley Jr. riding a stationary bicycle to create electricity to run a toaster to make toast. I’m not willing to do that. Are you? Ed Begley Jr. represents what the voice of environmentalism has traditionally looked like to many Americans. Very fringe. Very difficult. It’s a voice that will not move enough people to action before it’s too late.
Al Gore, as messenger, shows us that you can have your “American dream” and be green too.
This is what the Tennessee Center for Policy Research is really attacking. By attacking Al Gore’s use of power at his mansion, they are saying that you cannot live well by traditional standards AND be green. This makes, in the eyes of most Americans, the “American dream” incompatible with the green movement. That means that Al Gore cannot be listened to as a voice for the green movement. That leaves us back with the Ed Begley Jr. types as the voice of environmentalism, which means most people will not listen.

Do not be distracted by this political slight-of-hand.

Global warming is real and the threat is immediate. The masses must move to action. Send a postcard to your representatives in D.C. at http://www.algore.com/cards.html . Use fluorescent light bulbs. Plant a tree. You too can be part of the solution to global warming……….. even if you own a Texas-sized home.