[Vision2020] Will Algore's inconsistency's ever cease?

[Paul Rumelhart]

These kinds of things annoy the crap out of me.  I'm not asking Al Gore 
to be my spiritual savior.  In fact, I'm not asking him to do anything 
for me at all.  If he does some good to help out the environment, 
great.  Instead of picking on him for choosing the wrong fish to eat at 
dinner, perhaps we should be condemning the politicians in Indiana that 
thought it was OK for British Petroleum to dump 54% more ammonia and 35% 
more sludge into Lake Michigan each day 
(http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-pollute_15jul15,1,647384.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true), 
as just one example of the who-knows-how-many large scale events that 
happen each day that impact the environment.

I can understand if you don't personally like the man.  But his views on 
global warming are just as relevant (or not) despite his taste in fish.

Paul

heirdoug at netscape.net wrote:
> To Keely and any others who don't have a sense of humor.
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> THIS IS N O T SATIRE!
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> Gore's message loses bite
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> Article from: The Daily Telegraph
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> By Rebecca Keeble
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> July 18, 2007 12:00am
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> ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore's green credentials slipped 
> while hosting his daughter's wedding in Beverly Hills.
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> Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - 
> arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species.
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> Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from 
> illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern 
> Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.
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> The species is currently managed by the Commission for the Conservation 
> of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, the body which introduced a catch 
> and trade documentation scheme as an attempt to tackle illegal poaching 
> of this species.
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> Working with non-government organisations, the Humane Society 
> International's focus is now on pursuit of illegal fishing operators 
> who, in the rush to cash in on the highly valued species, plunder 
> stocks with no regard for sustainability.
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> It has been estimated that more than 50 per cent of toothfish traded is 
> illegally caught, and includes juveniles vital to the ongoing toothfish 
> population.
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> For many years HSI has expressed concern over the huge numbers of 
> seabirds that die each year on the hooks of illegally set demersal 
> longlines, threatening the long-term viability of those populations.
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> Yet, while legal operators in the Southern Ocean are obliged to follow 
> strict environmental rules, illegal operators undermine the 
> sustainability of their fishing operations.
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> Recently, HSI petitioned the US Government asking that they certify and 
> sanction Spain for allowing Spanish nationals known to engage in pirate 
> fishing operations to continue to harvest toothfish in a declared 
> conservation area.
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> Success would allow the US Government to embargo Spanish toothfish 
> imports until such time as Spain demonstrates compliance of its 
> nationals with international law and agreements.
>
> As we await a response from the US, thousands of endangered seabirds 
> die, while the sustainability of the Patagonian toothfish and the legal 
> fishing industry inches closer to the brink of extinction.
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> A strong and concerted effort by Governments, the fishing industry, the 
> conservation community and by the public which drives consumer demand, 
> is required to put an end to pirate fishing operations in the Southern 
> Ocean - otherwise the ecological sustainability of the toothfish is at 
> risk.
>
> And Al Gore could choose something else to eat.
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