Economic growth is the biggest political stumbling block you will run into as you try to get the world behind a determined anti-GW strategy.
Nicely done, Dale. This post lays out, about as clearly as I've ever seen it done, one of the impediments to addressing global warming.
However, I don't get from it to the conclusion nothing can be done. Until everything can be done.
For instance, take Al Gore. It's been well known, for well over a decade that environmental issues were one of his signature political vocations. Yet Gore actually won the popular vote in 2000. And if he had a more winning personality and, most importantly, a better political strategy, we would have been spared that last six years of confrontational chaos.
So I don't think politicians who take global warming seriously are dooming themselves to non-careers.
As for this: But the evangelical quality of Gore's mobilization style leaves no room for the skeptics.
That misrepresents the Gore who appears in the film. The entire point of the film is to place arguments in front of skeptics. And, in that respect, it's apparently doing much better than I anticipated when I first heard about it.
His attack is on the industry PR strategies which try to undermine the science. He recognizes the development issues but, as he has been quoted in various places, thinks they can be addressed. |
