As, also found this on Gore and the environment....Slade looks great in comparison....
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By now, most Americans are well aware of how indifferent the Vice President is to the economic despair the global warming regulations he advocates would impose on the poorest Americans. What they may not be aware of is how little he cares about human suffering in general when his own environmental values are at stake. A passage from his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance, illustrates: "The Pacific yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast, and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice — sacrifice the tree for a human life — until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated." In other words, to Vice President Gore, the loss of three rare trees is too high a price to save a human life.
For another thing, Gore is not nearly as shrewd a politician as Bill Clinton. He apparently does not see the political problem, for example, with blatant hypocrisy. While this self-professed defender of the environment lectures the American people on the need for self-sacrifice and self-discipline to protect the environment, Gore clearly has difficulty practicing what he preaches.
During the 1992 presidential campaign, for example, Nashville television station WTVF obtained footage proving the existence of a dump — a dump Gore insisted did not exist — on property owned by Gore's father. The footage showed that the dump was filled with aluminum cans, old tires, filters full of waste oil and containers for a pesticide called MH-30. The close proximity to a river suggested that it was a significant environmental hazard. More recently, in 1993, Gore had a verandah made of old-growth redwood and Douglas Fir added to the Vice President's residence, despite his long-standing opposition to logging old-growth forests. Then, just two years ago, the Denver Water Department released an extra 96 million gallons of water — enough for 300 families for a year — to improve the backdrop for a Gore photo-op in front of the South Platte River.
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