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Constitutional Liberal
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Seasonal locations
Posts: 14,797
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Gore is a snake oil salesman. First he creates the infirmity then he sells you the cure. Gore's real foot print is on the neck of American industry.
Wikipedia
The intended goal of carbon offsets is to combat global warming. The appeal of becoming "carbon neutral" has contributed to the growth of voluntary offsets, which often are a more cost-effective alternative to reducing one's own fossil-fuel consumption. However, the actual amount of carbon reduction (if any) from an offset project is difficult to measure, largely unregulated, and vulnerable to misrepresentation.
Gore is chairman of the firm and, presumably, draws an income or will make money as its investments prosper. In other words, he "buys" his "carbon offsets" from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself. To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy "carbon offsets" through Generation Investment Management - he buys stocks.
I know, he didn't create Global Warming anymore than he created the internet. He's just the front man.
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“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”
― Thomas Sowell
Last edited by Turbo_pro; 03-22-2007 at 06:56 AM..
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