The moral flaws of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth June 24, 2006
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The moral flaws of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. By Gregg Easterbrook
This raises the troubling fault of An Inconvenient Truth: its carelessness about moral argument. Gore says accumulation of greenhouse gases "is a moral issue, it is deeply unethical." Wouldn't deprivation also be unethical? Some fossil fuel use is maddening waste; most has raised living standards. The era of fossil energy must now give way to an era of clean energy. But the last century's headlong consumption of oil, coal, and gas has raised living standards throughout the world; driven malnourishment to an all-time low, according to the latest U.N. estimates; doubled global life expectancy; pushed most rates of disease into decline; and made possible Gore's airline seat and MacBook, which he doesn't seem to find unethical.
The big question is how can we alleviate global poverty and its associated ills while simultaneously trying to avert the consequences of global warming?
yes BUT, the flaws in al gore’s argument are???????…….