Al Gore, former US vice president, made a claim to fame for being the early force of climate change hysteria with his book and film, An Inconvenient Truth (2006), which predicted a climate apocalypse about now, just as Greta Thunberg more recently has done, with her failed prediction. Gore’s big thing was about the polar bears getting stuck in the middle of the ocean and drowning as the ice has melted, but it turned out to be nonsense since polar bears are superb swimmers. Anyway, things have gone well for big Al, who I recall saying that we should watch his waistline to see if he is going to run for president. But, he is doing fine, with speculation that his carbon-saving projects are going to make him the first carbon billionaire.
Now on this I suppose the standard line conservatives would take is that he is somehow hypocritical; however, I do not see a problem with developments that Gore may have done. The market will decide if these things are of merit or not. What I don’t like is the high moral ground taken to justify this, the boring mythology that we are eco-warriors saving the planet. It is just a myth. Better to be honest and just make heaps of money.