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roosevelt. martin luther king jr. manela. dalai lama. mother teresa. jimmy carter. AL GORE. which one of those does not belong? (hint: all the names but one are in lowercase).

i can’t believe the nobel commitee awarded the peace prize to al gore…and it’s obvious they can’t believe it either, because they felt so guilty they also acknowledged the UN just so people like me wouldn’t flip out too much. maybe they just felt bad for him after the 2000 election.

but i think the real issue here is not so much that al gore won, but why bringing climate change awareness and global warming crap to the forefront of political issues warrants a peace prize. i mean prizes in the past have been awarded for actually DOING GOOD to the world: negotiating ends of wars, peace treaties, advocating issues that actually changed society for the better, devotion to bettering the world, etc. the effects and consequences of these efforts were realized and could be praised/observed by all.

so global warming awareness? al gore is advocating something that has yet to prove its worth, and probably will never end up doing so because some meteor in 50 years will end up wasting all of us AND our hybrid cars. even the hippies and their bicycles made from recycled aluminum foil will go down. yep, good work al. now, if he got the world’s scientists to unite together to solve the problem of when the next meteor will hit the earth, and they fixed it (armageddon style)? that, my hippie friend, is worthy of a prize.

global warming is not new. and there are some folk even still arguing about whether or not it exists, so Big Al couldn’t have done THAT good of a job. research is developing alternative energies because of depletion of natural resources, not to reduce emissions. so i don’t see how al gore’s movie is going to save the world. and if i wanted to be a true liberal, i could say that al gore is only bringing global warming awareness to the portion of society that is wealthy enough to afford to go to movies. now THAT is not in the best interest of the world. what about all those random tribes in africa discharging aerosols? they may never know…

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