Saturday, April 29, 2006
SAVE THE UNIVERSE
Al Gore’s conservation ambitions now extend beyond his home planet, as Peter Foster reports:
Mr. Gore’s Vanity Fair contribution, a “Green Essay” titled “The Moment of Truth,” spews the kind of apocalyptic mush that first polluted the noosphere via his monumentally unbalanced 1992 book, Earth in the Balance. Science simply doesn’t come into it.
“We" are melting glaciers. Polar bears are drowning. Great sheets of polar ice threaten to raise sea levels by 20 feet. Species are being exterminated wholesale. Acid seas threaten to dissolve shellfish. And, most grandiosely, “We are ... altering the balance of energy between our planet and the rest of the universe.”
Hey, Al; how do you measure that?