Gore plans to initiate a grass-roots 'carbon freeze' movement

[YankeyMCC]

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BERKELEY, Calif. -- Al Gore plans to start a grass-roots political movement next month to seek a "freeze" on carbon emissions that scientists say are to blame for global warming.
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The former vice president's campaign is modeled after the nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s. Gore said he planned to enlist groups ranging from entrepreneurs and activists to political leaders to push for stronger policies to limit the growth of greenhouse gases.

"I think we need a 'carbon freeze,' " Gore told policy and business leaders Friday at a conference organized by a venture capital firm. "I intend to launch an ongoing campaign of mass persuasion at the beginning of 2007."
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"I think we need a mass movement in the United States. I think it ought to start at the grass roots," said Gore, author of the book, "An Inconvenient Truth," which was made into a hit documentary film on global warming.
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/12/10/gore_plans_to_initiate_a_grass_roots_carbon_freeze_movement/

[orpupilofnature57]

1. We need a grass-roots movement to draft Al ,Shrubs biggest crime is

robbing us of the benefit of this brilliant man.

[earth mom]

13. Can you imagine what this country would be like the past 6 years

with Gore in office?!

You said it, * robbed us-big time! :grr:

[AtomicKitten]

2. and he has a proposed a 'carbon tax'

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/9/18/152449/358

Elimination of all payroll taxes -- including social security and unemployment compensation -- to be replaced by the revenue from pollution taxes, principally on CO2. "The overall level of taxation would remain exactly the same," says Gore, "It would be a revenue-neutral tax swap. But instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees, it would discourage businesses from producing more pollution."

[w4rma]

6. Nice. (nt)

[WindRavenX]

7. awesome

More people need to see this. :thumbsup:

[IDemo]

11. This sounds very much like carbon trading

"The overall level of taxation would remain exactly the same," says Gore, "It would be a revenue-neutral tax swap. But instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees, it would discourage businesses from producing more pollution."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2893746

[pretzel4gore]

3. Gore covers for the getaway crowd...

the bush criminals must love Al Gore. he was there when bush (and his warts) needed him; during the 2k election, and ever since, disempowering the bush opposition.... now focusing attention on the carbon poisoning of the global atmosphere (goddam the people, too many of them living high as hogs:we need to lower expectations, maybe even limit voting/civil rights etc) iow a nice, safe issue to excite the herd....even bush is excited!

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/dec2002/gore-d21.shtml
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The former vice president and nominal head of the Democrats, who captured the votes of 50 million Americans and won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential race, chose a December 15 interview on the CBS program “60 Minutes” as the venue for publicizing his decision. That Gore, by far the best known of all likely Democratic presidential aspirants, should remove himself from contention at this early stage shows the degree to which the political system is controlled by an elite of media and political decision-makers, who are themselves answerable to the American financial oligarchy.For several months Gore had been aggressively preparing the way for a rematch with George W. Bush, making speeches on foreign and domestic policy, appearing on television interview programs, and conducting a national book tour with his wife. According to opinion polls, he was, by a wide margin, the first choice of Democratic voters to challenge Bush in 2004.

But the critical constituency for a viable presidential run was to be found not in voting precincts, but rather in corporate boardrooms, network office suites and the top echelons of the Democratic Party apparatus. Among the few hundred individuals who really “count” in shaping American electoral politics, Gore was decidedly out of favor. Their verdict was reflected in sluggish fundraising and what Gore associates called the “skeptical media coverage” of his book tour. The blow to Gore’s presidential aspirations was softened, according to press reports, by the former vice president’s new-found wealth, gained in part from a vice chairmanship at a West Coast investment firm.

In explaining his decision, Gore has offered only one political motivation—but it is a highly significant one. Referring obliquely to the 36-day battle over the Florida vote and the Supreme Court ruling that ultimately handed the presidency to his Republican opponent, Gore told his “60 Minutes” interviewer, “I think a campaign that would be a rematch between myself and President Bush would inevitably involve a focus on the past that would, in some measure, distract from the focus on the future that I think all campaigns have to be about.” In other words, a second Gore-Bush contest would inevitably raise the overtly anti-democratic manner in which the 2000 election crisis was resolved, and bring into question the legitimacy of the Bush administration. In his desire to avoid such issues, Gore reflects a preoccupation of the entire ruling elite and both political parties.
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[AtomicKitten]

5. a very narrow

and gratuitously tangential view of what actually transpired, something I'm really sad to read posted at DU, but, as always, you are welcome to your opinion, one that I am very glad to say is in the minority. And, ahem, pretzel4bush would be infinitely more deserving.

[pretzel4gore]

8. this kind of criticism doesn't hurt President Gore....

the article clearly says that Gore was forced by the gopigs and their allies in the dwem establishment to give up the '04 race-he explained honestly he didn't want the focus on the past, therefore he would forego running (to prevent possible violence or unleashing street rage, which would play into hands of bushevik police statists)
pointing out that we know that the party line isn't true (regards the phony outcome of the 2k election) to the democratic party establishment and mass media should be routine, and make them think about it next time. does anyone think we prevailed in the '06 elections because the gopigs etc are suddenly honourable men?
I betcha Gore is saying 'keep it up!' posting such criticisms, if only because it's obviously true, and makes it easier to uphold the integrity of the system (which benefits only US!)

[AtomicKitten]

10. in interviews

Gore has stated that it was the mood of the nation at that time, post Iraq invasion, that was not conducive to a run for him, which was damn smart considering he had come out against the war from the get-go and no other potential contender at that time had retracted their 'yes' vote.

Gore fought all the way to the Supreme Court in 2000. Once the judicial coup d'etat was rendered, he had to choose between acquiescing to the decision of the highest court in the land or advocating anarchy. He choose the former, rightly so IMO; apparently you don't agree which is your prerogative.

Please don't pretend what you have posted has any plus net value for Gore, unless you are being facetious. Your chosen screen name makes makes me inclined to think you are dead serious.

No worries. Any candidate for office should face obstacles and people trying to throw them under the bus as their trial by fire. The beauty of a Gore candidacy in 2008 is that he appeals to many people across the ideological spectrum.

That's really all I have to say to you on this subject. Good luck on your campaign here.

[Emillereid]

4. He's got my support! Gore, '08, The World Can't Wait!

[Harper_is_Bush]

9. Quite obviously this demonstrates he is NOT RUNNING

He is devoting his time to this.

So, time to get behind what he's is trying to do.

And for those who say Gore needs to run to be able to influence this issue you're kidding yourself. He will have plenty of influence without being in office.

[jasmeel]

12. Go Gore!

[crispini]

14. Every single one of us should be trying to go zero carbon.

That should be the new buzzword, right up there with:

Do you recycle?

Are you doing the Atkins diet?

and: "I'm going zero carbon."

K&R