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Al Gore Fires Back

Peter Schweitzer has some backtracking to do:

Gore receives no royalties from the mine, which shut down in 2003. (USA Today actually printed a correction about this, way down on page 10A.) Gore owns no stock in Occidental, and never has (his father did; it was all sold over six years ago). Gore does in fact take advantage of the green power options his utility offers, and was in the process of adding photovoltaic solar cells to his house when the article came out. He pays for his own personal carbon offsets, in addition to the institutional offsets purchased by Paramount (movie distributor) and Rodale (book publisher), which make both the book and the movie completely carbon neutral.

Regardless, claiming the moral high ground may require riding coach and not taking SUV caravans. I'm just sayin'.

posted by Jim VAT @ 8:06 PM