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To: coug who wrote (74122)	7/24/2006 11:29:26 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 361041

An Inconvenient Truth 24 Jul 2006 05:50 pm Andrew Sullivan I finally saw the Gore movie yesterday. It's thoroughly persuasive about the reality of global warming and the contribution of carbon dioxide emissions to it. I'd recommend it strongly to anyone. Its blindspots were, however, obvious. No mention is made anywhere of the fact that Al Gore was a very powerful vice-president for eight years in a critical period for this issue. His fulminations against others' indifference would have been a little more credible if he'd at least addressed and explained his own failure to do anything when he was able to. It's also striking that Gore could have used the movie to argue for a serious increase in the gas tax - and he didn't. The movie's final recommendations - recycle! write your congressman! ride a bike! reset your thermostat! - were truly lame after the alarm of the rest of the movie. I think a serious gas tax and a tough increase in mandatory fuel economy standards in the U.S. are essential to prompting the technological breakthroughs that alone can ameliorate this. And yet Gore balked. Just like he did when he was in power. time.blogs.com

To: coug who wrote (74122)	7/24/2006 11:32:41 PM
From: CalculatedRisk	Respond to of 361041

I was just talking to my neighbors about that exact topic: How hot it is here, and how it's nothing compared to the poor people in Lebanon and Iraq. It is hard to imagine the hardship those people are suffering. No electricity, running out of food, bombs falling from the sky ... Yes, we are lucky.

To: coug who wrote (74122)	7/25/2006 1:26:52 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361041

You have just put it all into perspective..........we are a bunch of whiners. Last night many of my neighbors were sitting in our garage drinking whatever cold drinks we could collect. We were talking about the people in New Orleans who lost everything they owned and how traumatic the experience of Katrina must have been. If you only had a shack and lost it all then it's home to you and very valuable. We were out of power again last night from 5:00pm till around 2:00am. The poor people in Baghdad and Lebanon are in the same situation indefinitely and we wonder why they learn to hate us?