Al Gore tweets warning on climate bill astroturfing
source: http://www.examiner.com/x-4383-Portland-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m8d19-Al-Gore-tweets-warni...
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Do you follow Al Gore on Twitter?
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JanforGore
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Well, if the people could actually see the real damage climate change is already wrecking on our planet instead of nicey nice ads that don't hit these companies in the gut where they deserve to be hit, people wouldn't need to worry that anything the fossil fuel industry does would make a difference at this point. I see it only as a failure on the part of us to get this message and the urgency of this crisis out correctly that these charlatans are able to even make a dent in the debate.
How many years have we had to get the message out ourselves? Perhaps we should then ask why this message has failed and why it is that so many Americans still do not see this as a threat. We just make it easy for these liars to gain traction by not coming out hard in the beginning. I don't want to see ads with people standing next to windmills. I want to see ads where the damage the coal and oil industry have done to our planet is laid our starkly in front of all to see. I want to see the truth about how coal companies blow up mountains and pollute and toxify this Earth and give people cancer. I want to show how sea level rise has already covered islands and is now working on Bangladesh, the Maldives and other places where people have already needed to be relocated. And that is just for starters. We haven't even touched the Arctic ice melt, glaciers melting all over the world disrupting water supplies and agriculture, and what it is doing to disrupt the traditions of the Inuit and other indigenous peoples. Why isn't any of this in the ads put out by repoweramerica? Is the Madison Avenue ad agency putting them together too scared to show the reality?
When are we really going to hit them FIRST so that any blow they make won't even make a cut?
- 2 years ago
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JanforGore
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ocanada
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JanforGore:
The Repower America ads that showcased the fact that there was no clean coal. The mountaintop removal ads that are frankly terrifying. These exist and have had a major impact. Not saying that impact can't be washed away by the more cohesive efforts of the coal lobby but as it stands the coal lobby has less funding than Al's efforts. The climate change effort actually has been organized as the largest public advocacy campaign ever. Its three times the size of the anti tobacco campaign and more than five times that of the campaign for healthcare reform.
- 2 years ago
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ocanada
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JanforGore
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JanforGore:
Well, perhaps instead of spending milions on ads it should then be spent on solar arrays and working to put coal out of business as we make the transition by actually getting renewable energy out there to people. Waiting for this government to do it just isn't the way to go in my opinion.
- 2 years ago
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JanforGore
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ocanada
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JanforGore:
You know that 350 million dollars that are being spent over the next three years are a drop in the bucket in terms of the solution. Creating the political will needed for real action, and garnering increased personal public action has frankly changed the tenor of this debate and you know it. This was Al's greatest impact and its why he won the Nobel because he changed the tenor of the debate.
- 2 years ago
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ocanada
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MilchMann
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JanforGore:
There are few people that are more qualified to mandate actual legislative change than Al Gore is... if it were not for him this would not even be on the table right now. It is my advice that if you want to continue seeing change, as slow as it may come at times, you should stay on board with him and trust in his advice. Al has been doing this stuff a long time, and he has the resources to get it done if we stick with him.
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MilchMann
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ocanada
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He's right to be worried. Look at what these astroturfers did to the healthcare debate.
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ocanada
