Why does Al Gore charge money for his book if it were so important to spread the word of global warming?

Question

Aren't Oscars for "actors"?

Answer 1

It's all about the money. Always has been, always will be.

Answer 2

"Launched with profits from Al Gore's new movie and book, a new group called Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend big bucks on advertising and grassroots organizing in an attempt to impart the dangers of climate chaos to the American public."
http://www.grist.org/news/daily/2006/05/10/2/index.html

Just think of it as making a donation to help spread the word. Only problem I have with it is the political undertones.

Answer 3

Oh didn't you know. Al doesn't charge for the book. It's those nasty publishers that are doing that. And those royalties he's getting from the book? The publishers MAKE him take those.

Didn't global warming really start at the peak of the last Ice Age? *LOL* I'm glad Al wasn't around then. If he stopped global warming way back then half of the US would still be covered in ice.

Answer 4

the money goes to a fund to help educate Americans (US) that climate change is real - compare this with how much money the fossil fuel lobby have to spend trying to convince you that there is no problem, or there is uncertainty cf the tobacco industry.

I don't think he has a privagte jet. and he offsets all his unavoidable Co2 emmissions - if there were any hypocracy I think the establishment media would have ripped him apart by now.

Oscars include writers, musicians, directors etc. But the media frenzy likes to focus on the pretty people who sell air space, not "boring" people that make things happen, or ask awkward questions of their sponsors

Answer 5

It takes little research to see that Gore has always been a con man. He has been an entertainer all his life. Too many people say giving him the Oscar proves his book and movie are right. I say then that giving Steven Speilberg and oscar proved that Darth Vader lives. Silliness, just plain silliness.
Gore talks about global warming from his private jet. Gosh does IT run on air or sunshine.

Answer 6

he probably doesn't cover his personal costs, Global warming is a serious crisis for your grand children not a kind of charity where money is is a prime factor in finding a result, I hope you can get a copy at the op shop soon.

Answer 7

That's a moronic question.

Why does the local filling station charge you for gasoline when they know how important it is for you to get to work?

Why does the grocery store charge you for food when they know that without it you would starve?

Answer 8

So he can travel the globe to spread the word that most of us already knew about before his little movie.

Answer 9

So he can help fight the next electoral fraud in the USA. If he had won in the 2000 elections, he would be fighting global warming, not Iraq or imaginary terrorist threats.

Answer 10

It doesn't matter. Watch how many silly sheep liberals leave you messages defending and apologizing for his actions.

They'll try to spin it that since you question the global warming gospel, you're obviously not "enlightened."

Answer 11

you got a point this is saving the planet kind of stuff and should not be a profit venture

or at least use the money to actively do some good such as reforestation
this is my message and it is free
(and i incite a lot of people like schools to help plant trees)


Is global warming a man-made menace?

not all there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

some home truths

politicians and scientists who work for politicians have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many people income,and most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.


in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result
(are you seeing more Chinese around interested in agricultural lands ,we do here in Mexico)

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

i am a Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.