Ritesh’s Blaagh(!)

Recently, Al Gore (along with the IPCC) won the Nobel Prize for his efforts to inform the world community about the impending climate crisis. This resulted in many right-wing dingbats ramping up the rhetoric on Al Gore’s “hypocrisy”, including such feats as counting the number of airplane flights he makes each month, the number of kilowatts consumed by his Tennessee house in the summer, and a list of cars that he owns that get less than 30 miles to the gallon.

Should Al Gore make all future trips to Europe on a sailboat? Should he ride a bike to all of his speaking engagements? How about moving his family into a tiny house?

Of course he’ll never do any of the things mentioned above, but let me say something that may scare people who know me: I don’t care that much if Al Gore is a selfish pig and has a rather portly carbon footprint. In this case, the message overshadows the man.

If grandpa lights up a cigarette whilst telling you to never start smoking because it’s a filthy habit, are you going to call him a hypocrite and light up the next day?

PS: Al Gore does try a bit. He buys carbon offset credits and plants trees.

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