Thoughts on Al Gore

Vernon Coleman





Al Gore, the self-appointed champion of environmentalism, is as guilty of wasting energy and contributing to global warming as anyone. His wonderful 20 room mansion in the USA consumes more electricity in a month than the average American household uses in a year.

Gore isn't quite the white knight, saviour of the environment and all things natural that he sometimes appears to be.

Two examples.

First, when Clinton and Gore took office in 1993 environmentalists hoped that their administration would continue the work of energy conservation and renewable energy programmes begun under President Jimmy Carter. But very little happened and few significant energy policy changes were made between 1993 and 2001. Coincidentally, Enron had, of course, made donations to Democrats as well as Republicans.

Second, one of the last things vice president Al Gore did, before sending away his lawyers, handing America to Bush and joining the political unemployment line, was to set up, with America's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), something called the Child Health Testing Program. The published aim of EPA was to test the danger of chemicals but the people who run the agency decided not to bother actually testing air, water or food to find out which chemicals were around in the greatest abundance - and which, therefore, might be causing the most problems. They decided not to bother warning parents against which foods contained dangerous chemicals. They decided not to slap any controls on the way chemicals are used. They decided not to do proper laboratory tests which would identify the most dangerous chemicals. Instead, as I had predicted a year earlier, they chose to set up a huge animal testing programme - apparently believing that this would help them find out exactly what chemicals are toxic and what dosages are safe for children. It is difficult to define precisely how stupid this programme is. By comparison, Napoleon's decision to lay seige to Moscow was a military masterstroke. The Japanese decision to bomb Pearl Harbour was an exhibition of strategic genius. And the decision to send American troops to South Vietnam was politically brilliant.

The American plan (as endorsed by Gore) is a simple one. If chemical A doesn't kill rats (or make them obviously ill) then it will be deemed safe to put into baby food. If chemical B only kills rats in large doses then small doses will be considered safe for babies and children. This is the biggest craziest, most obscene, most utterly pointless testing programme in history. It is pointless because rats, mice, rabbits, cats, dogs and so on are all different to one another. And they are certainly, unquestionably different to human beings. As I have shown in other books, the evidence clearly shows that tests done on animals are misleading and cannot be applied to human beings.)


Copyright Vernon Coleman 30th August 07


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