Calgary Sun | 05Feb2011 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.calgarysun.com/comment/letters/2011/02/05/17165181.html
Enviro-hypocrite
Re: “Al Gore’s snow job,” Lorrie Goldstein, Feb. 03, 2011.
Al Gore’s one-size-fits-all brand of intellectual monomania isn’t new.
Like the Freudian who sources all human behaviour to sex, Gore
reflexively blames man-made “global warming” for manifestations of
extreme weather. I can sympathize. A fetish for French existentialist
literature in my late teens moved me to label all man-made institutions
as “absurd.” Unlike Gore, however, I never managed to translate my teen
fixation into a lucrative enterprise founded on hoodwinking the masses
by plying them with fear of future weather-related devastation. But I
can still confidently claim the spectacle of a weather prophet of doom,
impressing on us a need to reduce our carbon footprint as he kicks back
in his baronial mansion, is the essence of absurd.
Orest Slepokura
(You mean the sky isn’t
falling?)