“..what good is it to save the earth if humanity suffers?”


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As the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting opens in Davos, Switzerland, I asked the former US vice president Al Gore and climate economist Lord Stern, two of the world’s most respected climate activists, to make sense of the arguments of those running the fossil fuel industry.

The simple fact is that their opinions don’t make any sense, Gore told Guardian Sustainable Business. He remembers being astonished by the argument of one oil executive at Davos, who asked: “what good is it to save the earth if humanity suffers?”
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http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jan/21/al-gore-lord-stern-oil-companies-fossil-fuels-climate-change

“Companies are insisting on their right to use our atmosphere as an open sewer,” he said. “In London a long time ago, a famous doctor connected the dots between sewage and cholera. We are connecting the dots between dirty energy and dirty weather, and in order to drive the kind of constructive change necessary, we need to put a price on carbon.”

source: same as op

You would much rather people in the poorer countries burned dung for heating and cooking (with its associated health problems), rather than cheap fossil fuels?

lee wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 11:47am:

You would much rather people in the poorer countries burned dung for heating and cooking (with its associated health problems), rather than cheap fossil fuels?

..lee has no brain!  ;D ;D

Sarcasm, the lowest form of wit. Although you may be half-right. ;)

lee wrote on Jan 25^th, 2015 at 11:54am:

Sarcasm, the lowest form of wit. Although you may be half-right. ;)

Lol, lee has fingered himself!

Anyone who believes in Al Gore and the algorians needs his brain washed.

Al Gore is a politician.

nuff said.

Ajax wrote on Feb 8^th, 2015 at 11:24am:

Anyone who believes in Al Gore and the algorians needs his brain washed. Al Gore is a politician. nuff said.

So leave everything uncle Ajax ay!??!   :) :)

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Feb 8^th, 2015 at 11:38am:

Ajax wrote on Feb 8th, 2015 at 11:24am: Anyone who believes in Al Gore and the algorians needs his brain washed. Al Gore is a politician. nuff said. So leave everything uncle Ajax ay!??!   :) :)

When it aint broke don't try to fix it!

Ajax wrote on Feb 8^th, 2015 at 12:15pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Feb 8th, 2015 at 11:38am: Ajax wrote on Feb 8th, 2015 at 11:24am: Anyone who believes in Al Gore and the algorians needs his brain washed. Al Gore is a politician. nuff said. So leave everything uncle Ajax ay!??!   :) :) When it aint broke don't try to fix it!

lol, nothing to see here sheeple  ::) ::)