Nobels fredspris
av Jarno • 13 Okt 2007 • Allmänt, Musik • En kommentar
Al Gore och FN:s klimatpanel tilldelades i går Nobels fredspris för deras engagemang gällande Klimathotet™. Kanske lite oväntat eftersom arbetet med klimatfrågan inte direkt handlar om fred, och självklart känner sig andra som arbetat hårt i frågan lite förbisedda. Jag tänker framför allt på Immortals vokalist Abbath, som i snart tjugo år arbetat med klimatfrågan. I en tv-intervju lovade Abbath att hans arbete med klimatfrågan skulle intensifieras och att han fortfarande är djupt engagerad.
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Helt rätt!
Al Gore är bara en docka, ditsatt av Amerikanska företagare med stora inversteringar i alternativ energi. Pure Business! Självklart skänker han hela prissumman, han är redan miljonär pa att leka marionett.
Det är tragiskt att Sverige alltid ska stödja samma typer. Att vi kan vara sa lättlurade.
Här ett utdrag ur en artikel i US Today:
”Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.
Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.
But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore’s office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.
Al Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn’t Gore dump his family’s large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family’s trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.
Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn’t mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.
Humanity might be ”sitting on a ticking time bomb,” but Gore’s home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore receives $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operates a zinc concession on his property. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River. ”
Det finns mycket mer, mycket mer, om man letar pa Internet.
Jag tänke pa alla hjältar runt om i världen som kämpar för fred…ord kan inte förklara vad jag tycker om detta fredspris.