If Al Gore were to received an honorary degree from any facility of higher learning, I would think it would have to be a B.S. However, the University of Tennessee is throwing an Honorary Doctorate at him, in Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
“Vice President Gore’s career has been marked by visionary leadership, and his work has quite literally changed our planet for the better,” said UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek. “He is among the most accomplished and respected Tennesseans in history, and it is fitting that he should be honored by the flagship education institution of his home state.”
Gore, whose career in public service and business has spanned four decades, is currently chairman of Current TV, an Emmy-award-winning, independently owned cable and satellite television nonfiction network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. He also serves as chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing.
How, exactly, has Al Gore changed the planet for the better? Hmmm?
He lives in a house that yearly uses “enough to power 232 average American households for a month.” But we are supposed to excuse that because he buys his electricity from “green” sources.” But if he uses that much, that means there is less for others. There is only so much green energy created daily.
And Gore travels around the country in a private jet. In 2007, Sean Hannity exposed Gore’s hypocrisy:
Did Gore’s “visionary leadership” motivate all of these celebrities to use private jets to fly to Copenhagen for the climate change summit? We are supposed to excuse this, because they buy “carbon offsets.” Pardon me, but Al buys his carbon offsets from through Generation Investment Management, the firm he currently “serves as chairman.”
If he was truly a visionary leader, would he not be leading a lifestyle that didn’t need to be offset? Instead, he lives in green “sin” and pays for them by offering the Church of Global Warming a large enough monetary penance, similar to the way the Catholic church allowed people to buy off their indulgences.
If the world were in the delicate situation Al Gore wants us all to believe it is in, his leadership would be exemplified by his behavior. He would live the way he thinks everyone should live to save the planet. He doesn’t.
He’s no leader. He’s a hypocrite.
