by Paul Taylor

Created on: January 17, 2009   Last Updated: October 03, 2010

GORE FEAR MONGERING

US Senator, Vice President and presidential aspirant Al Gore, authored a 400-page tome on everything environmental titled Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, which became a "national bestseller." Gore, in writing the book, said he was willing to risk his entire political career on the issue of the environment. His original 1990 title for the book was "World War III", ironic for a 2007 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Gore's emphasis was that to attain his version of global environmental rectitude, would require the commitment and sacrifice of world war. Gore, in late 2008, called for global civil disobensience to protest inadequate government climate change policies. Earth in the Balance rambles maniacally among premises of over population, nature's spirit, technophobia, consumptionism, species extinction, and introduced us to the term global warming in an attempt to circumscribe an "environmental holocaust without precedent," and to position Gore as the political leader whose insight will save the planet.

Gore exposes himself as either profoundly confused, or cynically manipulative, about the meaning of "technology." He writes "[G]overnment, as a tool used to achieve social and political organization, may be considered a technology, and in that sense self-government is one of the most sophisticated technologies ever created." His further abstractions equate technology with "spoken language," and even "the human body."

Gore also elaborates on how technology is not necessarily science. One should always be suspicious when politicians begin to bend the meaning of words. For clarity, please observe that Webster's Dictionary defines technology as "applied science." Gore also calls for science and religion to be "reunited in the service of the environment."

Gore, in keeping with the world war analogy of his environmental crusade, promotes vast government programs such as a "Strategic Environmental Initiative" and "Global Marshall Plan." His Global Marshall Plan would act to stabilize world population, develop environmentally appropriate technology, measure environmental impacts in economic terms, develop international environmental regulatory programs and develop a global environmental education program.

His Strategic Environmental Initiative was named to imply an environmental equivalent of the "Strategic Defense Initiative" (SDI), the crash program to develop a series of technological breakthroughs focusing on a common military

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