FACTS ALONE will NOT PERSUADE AmeriKKKunts on Climate Change - AL Gore
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Al Gore turns to God to help spread climate message
Suzanne Goldenberg
To appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to
protect the planet.
To appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious duty to
protect the planet.
Al Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenient Truth was published on
Tuesday, with an admission that facts alone will not persuade Americans to
act on global warming and that appealing to their spiritual side is the way
forward.
In his latest book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, the man
who won a Nobel peace prize in 2007 for his touring slideshow on the
consequences of climate change, concludes: "Simply laying out the facts won't
work."
Instead, Mr. Gore told Newsweek magazine in a pre-publication interview, he
had been adapting his fact-based message - now put out by hundreds of
volunteers - to appeal to those who believe there is a moral or religious
duty to protect the planet.
"I've done a Christian [-based] training programme; I have a Muslim training
programme and a Jewish training programme coming up, also a Hindu programme
coming up. I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in
Nashville in a version of the slideshow that is filled with scriptural
references. It's probably my favourite version, but I don't use it very
often because it can come off as proselytising," Mr. Gore said.
Mr. Gore's book - which arrives at a time of intense scrutiny of U.S.
environment policy, with the international meeting on global warming at
Copenhagen just over a month away - draws on the scholarly approach of An
Inconvenient Truth. Since 2007 the former Vice-President has been calling
experts together from fields ranging from agriculture to neuroscience to
discuss possible solutions to climate change.
The book draws on 30 such "solutions summits," as well as Mr. Gore's
conversations with scientists. New polling last month showed a steep decline
in the number of Americans who share Mr. Gore's sense of urgency in acting
on climate change. - � Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2009
Topaz
Here are some quotes from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
after the heading Ku Klux Klan:
"Ku Klux Klan, the name of an American secret association of Southern
whites united for self-protection and to oppose the Reconstruction
measures of the United States Congress"
"The various causes assigned for the origin and development of
this movement were: the absence of stable government in the South for
several years after the Civil War; the corrupt and tyrannical rule of
the alien, renegade and negro, and the belief that it was supported by
the Federal troops which controlled elections and legislative bodies;
the disfranchisement of whites; the spread of ideas of social and
political equality among the negroes; fear of negro insurrections; the
arming of negro militia and the disarming of whites; outrages upon
white women by black men"
"The constitutions and rituals of these secret orders have
declarations of principles, of which the following are characteristic:
to protect and succour the weak and unfortunate, especially the widows
and orphans of Confederate soldiers; to protect members of the white
race in life, honour and property from the encroachments of the
blacks"
"To control the negro the Klan played upon his superstitious
fears by having night patrols, parades and drills of silent horsemen
covered with white sheets, carrying skulls with coals of fire for
eyes"
"the Ku Klux movement went on until it accomplished its object by
giving protection to the whites, reducing the blacks to order,
replacing the whites in control of society and state, expelling the
worst of the carpet-baggers and scalawags, and nullifying those laws
of Congress which had resulted in placing the Southern whites under
the control of a party composed principally of ex-slaves."
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Tim Howard
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> Here are some quotes from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
> after the heading Ku Klux Klan:
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you would not defend vigilante murders like the KKK. You show your
hypocrisy because for you being tough on crime obviously only applies to
non-whites.
Topaz
When the police don't protect you, vigilantes ARE the law and order.
And I'm tough on all criminals.