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Al Gore's Buys His Own (Green)
Private Army
YOUR
NEW REALITY
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
The idea of Al Gore leading a 10 million strong team of volunteers
pulling old car wrecks out of rivers and planting trees is scary
enough. But the Al Gore Green Army (AGGA) have
much bigger plans :
Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers
to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many
as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support
of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.
During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection
plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising
and online organising to make global warming among the most
urgent issues for elected American leaders.
$300 million on TV ads and spam. That sort of money could buy a
lot of poor American homes a slab of solar panels.
Gore told the Washington Post that he launched the initiative
because of his concerns that US politicians had balked at supporting
strong legislation on climate change.
"This climate crisis is so interwoven with habits and patterns
that are so entrenched, the elected officials in both parties
are going to be timid about enacting the bold changes that are
needed until there is a change in the public's sense of urgency
in addressing this crisis," Gore said.
"I've tried everything else I know to try. The
way to solve this crisis is to change the way the public thinks
about it."
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That's exactly what Rupert Murdoch said last year when
he converted :
"...we can change the way the
public thinks about these issues..."
Al Gore is putting his money where his
mouth emits carbon :
The campaign is getting a hefty kick-start from Gore. The former
vice-president has donated earnings from his Oscar-winning film,
An Inconvenient Truth, his Nobel peace prize, and his job at
a venture capital firm.
He's throwing in a few million. But where will the other $290 million
or more come from?
Oh, there will be online fund-raising.
The AGGA will be haranguing you nightly at home and on the street.
They want you and your friends to pay for lobbyists and marketing
campaigns to get a new worldwide carbon tax introduced. Australia,
the UK and most of the EU are already keen to sign up.
$300 million on TV ads and online marketing would also give Gore
a mind-bogglingly intensive media launch for a late-run presidential
campaign.
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INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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