A Bright Future for Some

This ad focuses on the impact that Al Gore's proposed energy restrictions would have on the world's poor, and highlights the hypocrisy of Mr. Gore's own high-energy lifestyle.

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• Truth
• climate
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• CEI
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• lightbulbs

[lanceuppercut22]

how stupid. seriously, what more can I say?

[antshant1]

this is a very immaturish way to counter arguments ..... at least give some supporting data for your claims.

[Felixkalm]

It is the economically rational thing to do and if this was truly a free market, a shift to those industries would have happened long ago. But palm greasing lobbyists and interest groups seeking immediate returns have blocked this natural economic shift out of self interest, at a cost to the prosperity of posterity. Short-sighted politics and short-sighted business models, that is why America is doomed to fail.

[Felixkalm]

As for jobs. As anyone is the Western world is well aware the manufacturing job market is collapsing and millions of blue collar workers are and have been for the past few decades joining the ranks of the unemployed. There is massive potential in retooling existing factories and warehouses to accommodate the production of these new energy systems and putting these people back to work in competitive industries.

[Felixkalm]

Every region needs to consider plans that are specific to their context and competitive advantage, putting windmills everywhere and slapping solar panels on every house is merely a bandage and fails to understand the complexity of this issue and the dynamic approaches necessary to combat this energy crisis.

[Felixkalm]

Furthermore, one should question what are the alternatives and why have they been so willfully neglected by policy makers. A focus on solely wind and solar power by environmentalists simply provides reactionary parties with the material necessary to contend these projects as they have many limitations and themselves require enormous amounts of energy for production and maintenance. The oceans are the most powerful and consistent force on the planet and also the most untapped energy resource.

[Felixkalm]

The environmental impact is minimal and with further research will be eliminated. This technology has been used by man since the Roman empire and has been slowly embraced around the world in contemporary projects such as the Rance Tidal Power Station in France.

It is the responsibility of ever citizen to question who is propagating this propaganda and why. Who is advantaged from a continued use of these methods and who is disadvantaged.

[Felixkalm]

Tidal energy has been proven to be the most effective and reliable source of energy as it relies on the natural unfliching cycles of the tide. The production of these technologies will produce new job markets in the manufacture and operation of these energy producing ventures.

[Felixkalm]

The main point which is completely missed by this coercive ad is that affordable energy does not have to come at the cost of jobs or personal consumption. What is needed is a shift to truly reliable and renewable energy sources freeing ourselves of dependence on countries who hold monopolies on oil.

[superlulucake]

our ecosystem IS incredibly fragile