Al Gore and David Suzuki

North America's right-wing (stupid as usual) has been working itself into a lather over the respective popularity of the campaigns against global warming of Al Gore and David Suzuki.

For my money, Al Gore is not an inspiring figure, but he's evidently made a compelling documentary and somewhere inside feels deeply about the environment.

But an oil-financed Tennessee "think-tank" has exposed that Gore's 20-room mansion has a huge energy bill. The impact of this scandal has been muted by the fact that Gore pays a premium to access renewable energy and also works from out of his home.

With David Suzuki, the Canadian right-wing bloviates that he and his crew aren't cycling their way across Canada on his national tour of presentations and rallies against the dangers of global warming. Instead, Suzuki and company are driving around in a bus. I guess they could have taken a station-wagon, but, actually, I think the stupidity of the right-wing's complaint is self-evident.

But let's deal with their genuine (but stupid) outrage on these issues and their practical silence on the issue of the squalor that wounded Iraq Invasion veterans are suffering in at military hospitals in the USA.

Even entertaining the idea that Gore's and Suzuki's supposed crimes, and the environmenatlist movement's silence about them were all true, at the very most this would mean that Gore, Suzuki, and environmentalists aren't doing all they can about global warming.

It doesn't prove that global warming isn't a real danger. That's a totally different subject.

But the veteran's hospitals scandals establishes one very true thing: That the bush II regime, and the right-wing bloggers do not care about "the troops." That is the fundamental significance of this silence. Global warming might be (is probably) a genuine threat. If Gore, Suzuki, left-wing bloggers don't really care as much about it as is posited, it's a different subject. But the whole "Support the Troops!" jingoism is itself entirely undermined by their betrayal at the hands of the bush II regime and by their supposed loyal worshippers.

The disgraceful treatment of Iraq Invasion veterans is a proven fact, and so is the indifference of the North American right-wing to their plight.

These people are scum and there is no way to justify their continued ability to influence the wider society. They should be this unfortunately large minority that should be pitied and scorned.