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"What Mr Gore has asked is that every family calculate their carbon footprint and try to reduce it as much as possible," a spokesman said. "Once they have done so, he then advocates that they purchase offsets, as the Gores do, to bring their footprint down to zero." [ SOURCE ]
Oh yes, there is a lot of money to be made through guilt, fear and manipulation. The same things religions are accused of. I'm not really sure how purchasing offsets really help aside from line he and his buddies pockets. Oh what a tangled web they weave...
Ask any second grader what the purpose of CO2 is (nourishment for plants) and how the earth is heated (the sun). At least, that's what I was taught in school. Who knows what kids are being taught now. Maybe the plot of Idiocracy isn't so far off.
