Saturday, August 27, 2011

Al Gore says silencing global warming skeptics is like silencing racists in the civil rights era, tell them, 'don't talk that way around me'

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8/26/11, "Gore: Eat less meat to fight warming," Politico Pro, Robin Bravender

"The former vice president also criticized climate change skeptics, urging those who support curbs to greenhouse gases to “win the conversation” when it comes to global warming. He compared the struggle against climate skeptics to the fight
  • against racism during the civil rights movement.

When racist comments would come up in the course of conversations, “There came a time when people said, 'Hey man, why do you talk that way? That's wrong, I don't go for that, so don't talk that way around me. I just don't believe that.'”

That happened in millions of conversations, and slowly the conversation was won,” he said. “And we still have racism, God knows, but it's so different now and so much better.



via Gateway Pundit

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