Book: God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Quotes of Book: God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Like the Internet, environmentalism stretches back a long way, yet many people believe Al Gore invented it. There's no question that Gore's slideshow-turned-film documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, gave a huge jumpstart to the global warming … sorry, "climate change" … wait, sorry, "climate disruption" … no, hold on, "climate chaos" movement. {If the science is settled, why do they have to keep changing its name?} I won't bother recounting all the challenges to Gore's claims, as many others have already done so; or the widely noted disparities between the Spartan existence Gore prescribes for the rest of humanity and his own opulent, jet-set lifestyle. I'll just point out what I consider the most damning fact of all: While he was prophesying that global warming would cause a twenty-foot sea-level rise by the year 2100, flooding coastal areas and leaving hundreds of millions homeless {a claim debunked by a University of Montana study}, he spent nearly $9 million on an oceanfront mansion in the limousine-liberal enclave of Montecito, California {USA Today, "How Green Is Al Gore's $9 Million Montecito Oceanfront Villa?" May 18, 2010}. If he truly believed in his own message, wouldn't it have been wiser to spend $1 million on a mansion in Phoenix, Arizona, and then just wait for it to become oceanfront property? It's no surprise that the biggest proponent of expanding government to combat "climate disruption" is also among the biggest emitters of hot gas. book-quote
