Funny, last time I checked capitalism relied on free markets. Not legislation that forced the energy market to beholden to Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas Oligarchs. Look up the laws for your area on who exactly is allowed to supply you with electricity and tell me that's capitalism. If we had the same laws today that Standard Oil enjoyed when it set up it's monopolies, a resource light means of energy production would quickly dominate the energy markets without the need for government to step in and level the playing field for new technologies to compete while legally kept away from the majority of consumers in America. Pro-GW is not anti-capitalism, it's anti-oligarchy.
It's easy to call Gore a hypocrite because of his carbon footprint, but have you ever tried to live a carbon free in a society designed to operate on emitting carbon? I parked both my cars, I take public transportation, I recycle, I chose a town that is powered completely by a dam, and I source everything I buy. But here's the thing. Buying something new because it's environment friendly, isn't always the right thing to do. Take my two cars for example, I could buy a nice shiny new electric car. But I would be ignoring the fact that a **** ton of carbon was pumped out to make the parts that are in that car, to ship that car, and produce the materials that fix that car. If I compare that to the carbon my two cars emit, I wouldn't be carbon negative by simply upgrading my vehicles. Keeping them til they break, is literally more environmentally friendly than buying an electric car just because it emits less. And that's the kinds of problems Gore is faced with in his lifestyle. His home, isn't just his home, it's an office that house employees. He does not own a private jet, and uses means to offset the carbon from flying commercial, and I can go on and on. And I don't even like Gore. I think he is the wrong person to spearhead this because he is a failed politician, and the people he's trying to win over are blindly partisan against him.
You can spin however you want, but the only people with an evil agenda is those who seek to keep fossil fuels on the market as long as they can. Think about it this way, if we are wrong, all we get out of it is cleaner air and cheaper energy. If you are wrong, we all die. Better safe than sorry, I always say.
