Al Gore: We Must Use The Law To Make People Care About Global Warming
According to polls, a lot of people rate curing global warming lower than cleaning up stray dog poo. Gore responds by saying that if people won’t take global warming seriously we should use the force of law to make them take it seriously.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Mr Gore – hailed as the world’s leading green campaigner – said recent polls had found that while people rate climate change as a “serious problem”, some ranked it lower than clearing up dog mess.
“When politicians walk down the pavement, four or five of every ten people they meet ask, ‘What are you doing to solve the climate crisis?’ he said. “If you ask people their opinion, more than two thirds will say, ‘It’s a very serious issue, we’re responsible for it. We need to take action’.
“But then if you give them a list of 25 or 30 issues and ask them to rank them in order of seriousness, climate change comes at the bottom or near the bottom.
“I remember one poll where it came under dog litter. People are more likely to respond to problems that can be felt – terrorism, traffic jams, anything that activates the responses in an immediate way.
“We think, ‘If it’s never happened before maybe it won’t ever happen in the future’. That’s a rule that can work but the exceptions can kill you. And global warming is one of the exceptions.”
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Mr Gore added: “I have to say the situation has not improved since I made the movie in 2006. Sure, awareness has grown and more people are concerned since scientists said we had just ten years to take action to halt rising sea levels.
“But the situation has got worse. The entire North Polar ice cap is melting and could be gone in some areas in as little as five years.
“You have to ask what would it take to set off the alarm bells to make this a top-of-mind priority in the body politic. If you had told me a few years ago that we would be facing a situation where the entire North Polar ice cap was going to imminently disappear, I might have thought we’d certainly get people’s attention, and yet only to a limited degree.”
So if it’s all down to governments, is there any point in people “going green”? “Absolutely”, he booms. “I believe that while it’s important to change lightbulbs, it’s far more important to change laws.
“The idea that individuals in their own activities are going to change this is wrong.
So much for free people and free choices. And if you don’t think this is scary, consider that Gore and his brethren feel that carbon dioxide - the very air each and every human on the face of the earth exhales with every breath - is a “dangerous pollutant.”
If breathing is considered dangerous by the global warming faithful, just how far into our lives and freedoms do you think their laws to protect the environment will reach?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The global warming movement is more about expanding government control over the individual than anything else.
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