his theories about Global Warming?
If John Unknown Doe had made the film Inconvenient Truth, would conservatives have believed the theory more?
2007-05-19 06:58:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It's not just conservatives that have a problem, it is anyone in the pocket of, or connected to, big business. While changing our individual habits might be easy enough, for a major corporation to change would require much more of a fiscal consideration.
Why change, when it will cost them time and money, when being a stubborn moron is free?
Gore even said something along the same lines in his movie.
2007-05-19 07:04:33 · answer #1 · answered by But why is the rum always gone? 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Climate change is natural.....it's been going on for years.
The only opinion I have is to recycle as much as possible and quit littering. Also, conservation should be kept in mind..........people are so wasteful.
The Inconvenient Truth is the third-highest-grossing documentary in the United States to date.
The film's distributor, Paramount Classics, is donating 5% of the box office receipts and Gore is donating all of his proceeds from the film to The Alliance for Climate Protection (of which Gore is both founder and chairman).
If it was such a sucessful documentary, why is Paramont donating ONLY 5% ? And Gore is putting 100% to a company he is chairman............sounds odd to me.
2007-05-21 15:08:12 · answer #2 · answered by Isabella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really--Gore makes a good ligtening rod for the neocons--but their denial of global warming goes deeper.
Partly its political ideology--which is (if they but knew it) dictated by special interests (specifically the fossil fuel industry in this case).
Partly it is religiouus--an amazing number of these people believe we are in the "end times"--and even if global warming is real, they say, it is a sign from God. But doesn't matter because Jesu will remake the world, so it doesn't matter if we mess it up. (don't look at me--I'm jsut summarizing what they're saying!)
And partly it is an ignorance of and hostility to science per se that permeats the right-wing. Its not just global warming. Its evolution, stem cell research, archeaology/palaeontology, even astronomy, physics, biology. . .
Plus a (normal) human reluctance to admit a mistake. The cons spent so much time ridiculing global warming that they are reluctant, now that both it and climate change are established facts, that they are faced with having to admit they were wrong--and even worse, that the (SHUDDER!) liberal s were right!. :)
2007-05-19 14:17:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not true. A lot of us share his belief that the planet is getting hotter. What I hated about Inconvienient truth was the fact he put all his crybaby political belly aching in it. Other than that it was thourogh and informative and he actually is a very good speaker. BUT, he's still not qualified to run the country.
2007-05-19 14:07:48 · answer #4 · answered by Angry EX-DEM 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Conservatives do not want to be confused by the facts. They cant handle information and those that can work for conservative think tanks that pervert the truth for the commercial profits. You cant want to learn and be a conservative. There are churches though that are taking on the environment as a religious theme that God wants them to take care of the earth. They might embrass a republican Al Gore.
2007-05-19 14:07:19 · answer #5 · answered by jgold49 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I tend to believe the scientists who at one time stated that there was a problem and have since retracted those statements. There are a lot of them out there.
Global Warming and it's followers have almost created a religion out of this. The winners are those who are collecting the $$$$...... Ahhhh... but being a capitalist, I can't really blame them.
2007-05-19 14:09:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Face it, if Gore proclaimed the earth was round and circled the sun, the republicans would oppose his "theory", and offer up an "intelligent design" cosmos theory where the earth was flat, but somehow God can only explain the incongruities with reality.
They (cons) really are cro-mags when it comes to science.
2007-05-19 14:11:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
it's more like we hate what a hypocrite he is.
like most liberals, they piss and moan about how the average american lives and demands we all change our ways to stop this or that, yet they don't change their lives themselves.
they whine about SUVs but still get driven around in their limos and private jets.
as far as global warming is concerned, i'll believe in it when i'm not freezing my *** off 7 months a year and paying through the nose to keep my house warm.
2007-05-19 14:15:35 · answer #8 · answered by locksmithite 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's interesting to see all the so-called conservative and/or Republican sympathizers here. You can tell who they are by their bad spelling and inability to form coherent sentences. Others, on the other hand, think they're really clever with their acronyms. Okay?
2007-05-19 14:09:43 · answer #9 · answered by Sangria 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Conservatives don't want to believe anything that might spoil their profits. Money-grubbing and completely out of touch with the reality of what they have done to destroy the delicate ecological balance between man, plants, and animals, conservatives will go down in the flames of Hell before admitting that they, too, contributed to the world's environmental demise. -RKO- 05/19/07
2007-05-19 14:03:47 · answer #10 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 2⤊ 5⤋