Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the Noble Peace Prize. This is good news, albeit news that will provoke the ire of the flat-earth the-market-solves-everything crowd. While much of the right dismisses Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth as complete fantasy (I doubt that few have actually watched it), it's probably the most well-argued, evidence-based documentary ever made. So what are some of our flat-earth brethren saying about award: Ted West the Naked Conservative suggests (through the example of the Iraq War) that liberals will bring on global warming by talking about it. Some have mistakenly attributed this logical form to Aristotle but it actually comes from Tommy, a small boy who closed his eyes when caught with his hand in the cookie jar, knowing that his mother and the rest of the world would simply disappear the second he stopped thinking of them.
And They Call Me an Engineer and Considerettes are flabbergasted that Gore gets a peace prize for his work which (he claims) doesn't seem to have anything to do with peace. Hmmm. If we have India, which will soon be the most populous nation, running short of water due to glacial melt, other countries like Canada possible benefitting from greatly expanded habitable territories, Africa, the poorest area in the world, turning into a large desert, and a world cut up into different nations which each have politicians concerned solely with what benefits their own country (and those are the good politicians, most are more concerned about how to benefit the corporation that gave them money or the tribe that supports them), how is this not related to peace?
And from the round-earth side?
Progressive Involvement makes a sort of "Pascal's Wager" that if we bet on science (versus talk-show hosts and corporate spokesmen?) at least we'll start turning to cleaner energy sources and realligning or economy for long-term sustainability.
The Middle Earth Press Room and many other blogs have lamented the fact that Gore is not (at least, not yet) running. I would definitely vote for Gore over the current list of candidates (although I do like Kucinich and Edwards).
5 comments:
Good round up.
Unfortunately for all those who followed, the Nobel prize for Peace was forever besmirched when it was awarded to that Warmonger Kissenger.
To tell you the truth, I had no idea that the prize had ever been given to war-criminal Kissinger. What a joke!
Yes Kissinger shared the prize Le Duc Tho of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1973.
It's a pity. If Bush could just stick around as president for another 15 years, he might be able to get a Nobel for pulling out of Iraq.
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