If Gore Were Arrested is the title of an article at The Nation online. According to this report Al Gore has been invited to participate in civil disobedience with the Rainforest Action Network and he is considering it!
The article finishes its headline sentence this way:
If Gore did end up getting arrested during a protest against a coal-fired power plant, it would make front-page news throughout the world and put a spotlight on what some climate scientists and activists consider the single most important priority in the fight against climate change: halting the use of coal as the world's top source of electricity production.
Yes it would make headlines, but it seems to me it also runs the risk of sidelining Gore in an issue in which he is arguably the most significant US figure. He could instantly plummet from Nobel laureate to dirty hippie. I don't know what I would do in his situation. Al Gore has said 'Why [aren't there] rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them constructing new coal-fired power plants?' Maybe this is just for young people howling from outside establishment walls and not for suit-wearing, middle aged insiders wispering in the ears of the powers that be.
What do AFTIC's readers think? Would this be PR gold, or the kiss of media death?
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I vote for "kiss of death", for the same reasons you speculate.
Ditto. Kiss of death.
Kiss of death - Gore's "attraction", such as it is, to Joe and Jill Average out there is due to his aura of normalcy. Once he stands on the front lines with all the "hippies" , "Earth Firsters" etc he will throw that cachet away forever and be marked as an eco terrorist.
I think hew could revive his name were he arrested for civil disobedience. It would certainly draw attention to an important issue.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had eight years of Gore rather than Bush?
I think hew could revive his name
Yeah, cuz no one remembers who Al Gore is.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had eight years of Gore rather than Bush?
You think getting arrested for civil disobedience is the path to the White House?
I don't think that Al Gore is looking for a path to the White House. I think he has found a higher calling. If he chooses to place himself in a situation that puts him in contravention of the law, that's his business. I don't think the the cause will be affected in the long run, because there is too much momentum and scientific backup.
Go for it Mr. President,I mean Al.
I don't think that Al Gore is looking for a path to the White House.
Neither do I, but if he were, getting arrested for civil disobedience wouldn't be advisable.
Truth Machine...
... two words: Nelson Mandela.
Mandela had to wait a hell of a long time, and to engineer a massive constitutional and cultural change before he got to be president. And he was helped by a worldwide embargo. If Gore is willing to wait that long, and change the US that much, then sure.
how lame is this? al gore is a hoax, if he gets arrested its guaranteed a trick to fool people into thinking that global warming is man made, and that somebody actually is arresting him for saying it.
that would be nonsense.
why are all the other planets heating by exactly as much as the earth? mars, jupiter etc
why does the UN say that asphalt is the biggest contributor to global warming?
how come plant in greenhouses thrive, and under the exact same "greenhouse effect" the world get destroyed? do you see how retarded the claim is?
why didnt the world end of global cooling, so heavily professed in the 70's?
why are all the major media outlets reporting on this, and not, lets say the buddhists? or the rain forest?
why arent they talking about the rainforest?
since when did the major media players start to worry about the eco system?
would more plancton help the eco system? because plants need the co2 to create more o2, they love the increase of co2, but there are real concerns
I'm all for this. Civil disobedience works best when it isn't confined to groups that are easily dismissed as being on the fringe, and all the science and all of the drumming up of social conscience on the issue isn't working as effectively as it needs to.
Al Gore shouldn't just protest, he should go all Sangamon Taylor on that plant.
It'd probably boost his credentials as a climate-change guru, but he'd never hold a serious political office again. It depends on where he wants to go...
'how come plant in greenhouses thrive, and under the exact same "greenhouse effect" the world get destroyed? do you see how retarded the claim is?'
You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding. Or retarded. "Kidding" or "retarded". Please. If you say one of those, I can sleep tonight.
Those aren't mutually exclusive states, Dustin.
Would set him apart from the other spineless Democrats.
Civil disobedience works best when it isn't confined to groups that are easily dismissed as being on the fringe, and all the science and all of the drumming up of social conscience on the issue isn't working as effectively as it needs to.
Neither do I, but if he were, getting arrested for civil disobedience wouldn't be advisable.
he'd never hold a serious political office again. It depends on where he wants to go...