Soleron said:
Kasz216 said: ...
Hah, geothermal. You know what's funny? George W Bush's house if run by Geothermal energy. Despite is anti-green polcies, he's actually quite possible the most personally green president we've had. That was always a funny thing about the Bush V Gore campaign... and Gore in general. He's a HUGE pollutor. Like one of the worst personal pollutors in the country.
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I always judge by effective policy. The cult of personality around individual politicians stops people from seeing whether their ideas are good/bad for the country. From both the liberal and conservative sides. As an outsider, it's absurd that limited government reach, and basic social liberties, are on opposite sides of the US spectrum and cannot be combined on the same person whilst remaining electable.
I wish Gore's stamp wasn't on the debate. He's so politically and personally charged that conservatives find it easy to dismiss climate change on his image alone, without actually thinking.
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That's for sure. It doesn't help to that he didn't just put a stamp on it but more or less lead the vast over exaggeration of it that more or less caused permanent skepticism.
It's like overexagerrating to a kid to get him to listen to you, the problem is...when they don't listen still and the problems aren't happening as fast as you said they would, they just assume you've been lying the whole time.
That's more or less exactly what an inconvient truth was... an exagerration to try and win over support.
Heck technically at this point we're supposed to already be in the "feedback loop" that's supposed to fuck us over. According to the oldest research it should already be too late to do anything about the enviroment.