Once out of office, [Gore] assumed the
leadership of the global green movement, steering that movement into a tsunami
of defeat that, when the debris is finally cleared away, will loom as one of
the greatest failures of civil society in all time.
…It is hard to think of any recent failure in international politics
this comprehensive, this swift, this humiliating.
…The head of Mothers Against Drunk Driving cannot be
convicted of driving while under the influence. The head of the IRS
cannot be a tax cheat. The most visible leader of the world’s green
movement cannot live a life of conspicuous consumption, spewing far more carbon
into the atmosphere than almost all of those he castigates for their wasteful
ways. Mr. Top Green can’t also be a carbon pig.
…If the heart of your message is that the peril of climate
change is so imminent and so overwhelming that the entire political and social
system of the world must change, now, you cannot fly on private jets. You
cannot own multiple mansions
…This general sleeps in a mansion, and lectures the soldiers because they want
tents.
…Al Gore’s lifestyle is a test case for the credibility of
his gospel and it fails. The tolerance of Al Gore’s lifestyle by the environmental
leadership is a further test — and that test, too, the greens fail.
…The Achilles heel of environmentalism in politics has
always been its association with upper crust ‘starve the peasants to save the
pheasants’ thinking.
Please go read the
entire thing. You’ll be glad you did. The entire world has not lost its
marbles. Sensible people of a variety of political hues do, in fact, look at Al
Gore and see the same catastrophic failure of leadership. If, afterward, you’re hungry for more, here
are some other Mead quotes, with links to the blog posts in which they appear:
For two decades
greens have arrogated to themselves the authority of science and wrapped
themselves in the arrogant certainty of self-righteous contempt for those who
oppose them. They have equated skepticism about their incoherent and
contradictory policy proposals with hatred of science… [Top Green
Admits: "We Are Lost!" May, 2011]
It is extremely
rare for 95 US senators to be right about anything; it is not, unfortunately, rare
for environmentalists to come up with grotesquely bad policy ideas. Worse, it
is routine for the media to give those grotesquely dumb ideas uncritical
support. For twenty years, the mainstream media has…largely repeated green
propaganda as straight news. [Kyoto Fraud Revealed October, 2010]
When it comes to
climate change, the environmental movement has gotten itself on the wrong side
of doubt. It has become the voice of the establishment, of the tenured, of the
technocrats…It knows what is good for us, and its knowledge is backed up by the
awesome power and majesty of the peer-review process. The political, cultural,
business and scientific establishments stand firmly behind global warming
today…They tell us it’s a sin to question the consensus, the sign of bad moral
character to doubt. [The
Greening of Godzilla August, 2010]
This phase of the
climate change movement was immature, unrealistic and naive. It was poorly
organized and foolishly led. It adopted an unrealistic and unreachable
political goal, and sought to stampede world opinion through misleading and
exaggerated statements. [How
Al Gore Wrecked Planet Earth February, 2010]
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