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using the ANWR as our sole source of oil, it would last between 215 and 525 days, and that turning protected park land into industry is a slippery slope in the eyes of most environmentalists?

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The Oscar was for a documentary that helped to ring the alarm bell that we are trapping the Earth under a cloud of gasses that trap heat inside, slowly killing us all, and our descendants?

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Plus, if the environment collapses, then resources will become more scarce, provoking more conflict.

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Gore and the IPCC helped to promote a world where resources are less scarce and conflict over them is lessened

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that studies have found that greenhouse gasses (of which CO2 and methane are) in

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and you want to prevent animals from defecating?
and that the mean temperature of the Earth in just the last hundred years has increased by 1.35 degrees farenheit?

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Carbon credits are a brilliant idea. It mixes environmentalism with capitalism. If you want the luxuries that destroy the environment, you ought to have to pay for them. Also, your Gore-bashing is rather outdated by this point.

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Blame this on our Dear Leader's incompetence regarding anything that would be good for the environment.

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Mmmmm...and I almost forgot - you do know that alternative energy is a good thing as well, correct? You know - if we don't have to depend on oil...perhaps little men would not have to go to foreign lands to start ill-conceived wars

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How do you blame pollution from fertilizer runoff on Bush and not on Gore! You must be young and a product of our excellent public educational system.

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ORIGINAL: lightshineon

OK Liz, we are going to for the first time agree on an issue, do not fall out.[;)] We are responsible how we treat Gods gift of creation. That is why I recycle, and it is a pain in the backside, but do it because felt led too. I do not buy Al Gore and his theory, on Global warming though. I just think we as Christian worship the Creator (God) by taking care of the enviroment, he lovingly put in place for us. I do not believe in worshiping the creation though. I also miss Goof-Off in the spray can vs, the can that does not spray. I wonder if they will be taking all aresol based products off the shelf, which is ridiculious, that is going too far, For a chubby man, with a beard, and his ridiculious beliefs.

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I will never understand this reluctance and sometimes refusal on the part of some evangelicals on this topic.

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Personally I find Earth Day offensive because it is, like many liberal activites, one of those things that allows one to feel good about oneself without actually doing anything substantive at all.

I also find "Earth Day" offensive.
Lizahana, your link provided this information:
"The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991." (highlight mine)

We acknowledge 'Arbor Day' :
The first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872 in Nebraska. It was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist and politician originally from Michigan. Throughout his long and productive career, Morton worked to improve agricultural techniques in his adopted state and throughout the United States when he served as President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture. But his most important legacy is Arbor Day.
Morton felt that Nebraska's landscape and economy would benefit from the wide-scale planting of trees. He set an example himself planting orchards, shade trees and wind breaks on his own farm and he urged his neighbours to follow suit. Morton's real opportunity, though, arrived when he became a member of Nebraska's state board of agriculture. He proposed that a special day be set aside dedicated to tree planting and increasing awareness of the importance of trees. Nebraska's first Arbor Day was an amazing success. More than one million trees were planted. A second Arbor Day took place in 1884 and the young state made it an annual legal holiday in 1885, using April 22nd to coincide with Morton's birthday.
In the years following that first Arbor Day, Morton's idea spread beyond Nebraska with Kansas, Tennessee, Minnesota and Ohio all proclaiming their own Arbor Days. Today all 50 states celebrate Arbor Day although the dates may vary in keeping with the local climate. (State Arbor Days) At the federal level, in 1970, President Richard Nixon proclaimed the last Friday in April as National Arbor Day.
More HERE
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Please Note the words: "He set an example himself planting orchards, shade trees and wind breaks on his own farm and he urged his neighbours to follow suit."

For myself, I've just never been thrilled with those that steal and take credit for someone else's ideas and work. And then change the name and turn it into a profit making business; Al Gore, IMHO.

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Mmmmm...and I almost forgot - you do know that alternative energy is a good thing as well, correct? You know - if we don't have to depend on oil...perhaps little men would not have to go to foreign lands to start ill-conceived wars

The discussion of Iraq is another topic. What is the issue is using the resources we have until we have marketable alternative fuels. The simple fact is those pushing for alternative fuels have no regard to the economic hardships it brings to those who can least afford it! How is this a good thing? It is a good thing only if you can afford it and have enough disposable income.

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Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.

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His critics, like Andrea Shipley, executive director of the Snake River Alliance, say he has simply sold out.

"The only reason Patrick Moore is backing something as unsafe and risky as nuclear power is he is being paid by the nuclear industry to do so," Shipley said.

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If you want to take the oil up in ANWR, along with its' serene beauty from future generations, then go ahead.

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Sorry - I'm not following you here. Arbor Day is on April 25 and Earth Day is on April 22. So who stole what? Are you saying that Al Gore is saying that he started Earth Day, or Arbor Day or both or...? If so, please provide the links...

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If you want to take the oil up in ANWR, along with its' serene beauty from future generations, then go ahead. I'll be on the other side trying to prevent this.

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The Prius, and Honda models have been out since 2002 at least. It's high time US automakers catch up, and they are.

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I gotta get me one of those tours to the tundras of Alaska.

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Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power

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Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power - a concept tied closely to the underground nuclear testing his former environmental group formed to oppose.

But of course the cries of "foul" will come out along with the accusations of -

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His critics, like Andrea Shipley, executive director of the Snake River Alliance, say he has simply sold out.

"The only reason Patrick Moore is backing something as unsafe and risky as nuclear power is he is being paid by the nuclear industry to do so," Shipley said.

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If you want to take the oil up in ANWR, along with its' serene beauty from future generations, then go ahead.

Serene Beauty Liz? Are you aware that it is covered in ice and snow, foggy and gloomy for 10 months a year? And when it is bearable for you to take a tour of you sink to your waist in the tundra!

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ORIGINAL: Pat-rebel_lady

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Sorry - I'm not following you here. Arbor Day is on April 25 and Earth Day is on April 22. So who stole what? Are you saying that Al Gore is saying that he started Earth Day, or Arbor Day or both or...? If so, please provide the links...

If you read the link I provided [HERE] you would have read:
The first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872
A second Arbor Day took place in 1884 and the young state made it an annual legal holiday in 1885, using April 22nd to coincide with Morton's birthday.
At the federal level, in 1970, President Richard Nixon proclaimed the last Friday in April as National Arbor Day.

As for Earth Day; 20 million people across the United States celebrated the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970

What's so hard to follow about this?

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If you want to take the oil up in ANWR, along with its' serene beauty from future generations, then go ahead. I'll be on the other side trying to prevent this.

There is nothing up there; if you love it so much move there and build an igloo. You have bought hook, line, and sinker into the lies of the Sierra Club.

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The Prius, and Honda models have been out since 2002 at least. It's high time US automakers catch up, and they are.

And where are we to mine for the metal needed for the hybrid batteries. Where are we going to go when the demand for these increases?

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Yup! Before I die (I guess you could call this my partial 'bucket list'), I would like to see a polar bear in the wild -

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on my local PBS station