Eugene Coyle wrote:
The Gore movie (I haven't seen it but read about it) fits perfectly
into a familiar pattern, which I call "HORROR, THEN HOPE."
The speaker ... describes
the horrors that await the world from global warming. Then, the
Hope. The hope is almost universally technological, mediated by the
market.
The technology is solar, nuclear, clean coal, etc. The marke is
aided by higher taxes on energy or directly on carbon. A little
supply and demand, assisted by taxes. There you are.
To be fair to Gore, he puts a big emphasis on the need to change
politics and policy. For example, he shows a photo of the border area
between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (brown on one side, green on
the other) and asserts that the difference in results is due to
politics and policy.
Of course, that politics and policy involves electing Gore (or someone
like him). Standard DP politics.
BTW, he's much more attractive as a candidate in this movie than in
his 2000 campaign. He's more in touch with his inner nerd. It's like
someone said about the PC/Windows fellow in the PC vs. Mac TV ads. The
nerdy PC guy is more attractive, lovable, to most people than is the
smirky Mac guy. The "new Al Gore" is more like the nerdy PC guy, and
less like the old Al Gore, who was too much like the Mac man.
(The "new Al Gore" should remind us of the "new Nixon." I'm still
waiting for the new new Nixon: he's tanned, he's rested, he could be
President again if he weren't dead.
(or maybe if Kinky Friedman were elected Governor of Texas (now he's
officially on the ballot), he could be catapulted to the White
House... But is the Nation ready for a Jewish President?)
--
Jim Devine / "The optimist thinks that this is the best of all
possible worlds; the pessimist knows it." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer.
