And this is considered a republican state!
Global Warming, a Hot Topic: Al Gore Tickets Sell Out Quickly
By Jennifer Gelband, 1-04-07
You ever heard of this guy Al Gore? Apparently he’s popular among college students. He’s a movie star, you know. Made this ubiquitous film that debuted last year called “An Inconvenient Truth.” It was about the threat and the reality of global warming. The kids love him.
Turns out their parents do too, because, as luck would have it, he was also the vice president under Clinton. And he’s coming to Boise this month.
I had big dreams of attending his lecture Jan. 22 at Boise State University as the keynote speaker for the 23rd Annual Frank Church Conference called "Global Warming: Beyond the Inconvenient Truth." My dreams were shattered Wednesday before 11 a.m.
BSU started distributing tickets, which were free, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, but they were gone ten minutes after the ticket office opened. I went at 11 and didn’t get one.
“I got there before 8 a.m. and there were like 20 people already there,” said my friend Louie, who headed out early to score tickets. “I wouldn’t say they camped out but most of them had lawn chairs, one girl brought her laptop. They were definitely prepared to wait a while.”
Lawn chairs you say? The ticket office is inside, so that’s some pretty serious fan base.
BSU distributed 700 free tickets, though the space in which Gore will speak supposedly holds 1,200. Maybe they’ll release more tickets later, just like the promoters of the recent Rolling Stones show did. Or maybe they are just plain saving the rest for university staff.
The 23rd Annual Frank Church Conference is a full-day conference that will feature global warming experts discussing potential solutions to the universal problem that Vice President Gore made accessible dinner-table talk in his documentary-lecture movie.
Gore will speak at 7 p.m. after a reception at the Banner Bank building in downtown Boise, which has recently been recognized and honored for its green design. The building gained a lot of notoriety last summer with its official opening because it is considered one of the highest-level LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) buildings in the world.
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But on to the current topic.
Take a guess. How many of Algore's adoring fans will arrive for his lecture by some means other than single-occupant vehicle? (Okay, some of 'em will prolly carpool, if they got more than one ticket.) How many of 'em use other than SOV for their day-in, day-out transportation?
How do you s'pose Algore and his posse travel from PowerPoint to PowerPoint, lecturing the believers?
Not a fair question? Is there some reason he couldn't travel in a Prius, or in a Greyhound bus, or even in coach-class commercial aircraft... if he truly believes what he preaches? Is Algore guilty of "Do as I say, not as I do?"
Is it fair for us commoners to compare OUR "carbon footprints" with Algore's, to decide if we're doing enough?
I get MUCH more inspiration from people who DO, than from people who private-jet from place to place, telling others to DO. Or paste their tree-hugger bumperstickers on the back of their big honkin' SOV Ford Explorer or Jeep Cherokee. Fools!
(As one who has limited exposure to Algore - the most exciting thing he ever did was kiss Tipper, far as I know - I can't imagine there's much entertainment value in the Algore Inconvenient Truth Extravaganza. But maybe everybody can drive home afterwards, feeling good about having done their part.)
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