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RE: Apples and oranges
Oh hell, I am certainly against mandatory type charity, including mandatory eco-friendliness. I don't care really what Gore does, except when he says things like "The Earth has a fever" (and the only prescription is more cowbell--someone had to say it) and preaches about the approaching Environmental Armageddon, but is a huge energy hog himself, well, I have a problem with that.
RE: Apples and oranges
I totally agree with you that since he's spending money on carbon credits elsewhere, it would make sense for him to use that same money to make his own home the model of what he preaches.
Again, this totally misrepresents "what he preaches", which I think destroys your whole point.
Gore isn't saying "don't emit greenhouse gas" - he's saying you need to undo the damage your emissions cause. He believes that the carbon credits do exactly that, thus his home is the very model of what he preaches.
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RE: Apples and oranges
As I said in a previous post, if Gore has the money to both run an obscenely high electric and natural gas bill and pay for someone else to plant trees or whatever, than he surely has the money to make his mansion energy efficient. How can he tell us to care and do something yet do nothing himself?
I'm 50:50 on this one.
I totally agree with you that since he's spending money on carbon credits elsewhere, it would make sense for him to use that same money to make his own home the model of what he preaches. There is definitely more public value to presenting yourself as the model even if that money goes further behind the scenes as carbon credits.
On the flip side, just as I am against mandatory charity, I am also against mandatory "self-greening." Again, read that as I am against the mandatory part, I support the idea and practice of doing green. So anyway, I do not think that just because somebody has the means of doing so, they should be frowned upon for not.
Hypothetically, if George Greenthumb makes $500K a year, how much would he be obliged to commit to these purposes? Would he remain under scrutiny until he's bought $75K worth of solar panels? Would he be frowned upon for not paying several thousand to have a geothermal well dug? There obviously comes a point where ridiculousness is reached. Plus, if there was a social demand that "well, you make enough, you should be spending it on XYZ" ... many people would opt to make $N-1 in reportable income.
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