Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action
against both
global warming and
global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian
activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both
global warming everywhere and
global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign
against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We
Fight»
But the most interesting part of the segment is an interview with Joe Lucas, head of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (nee Americans for Balanced Energy Choices), a coal industry front group that has spent tens of millions of dollars on deceptive advertising and political
activities, as well as more than $ 10.5 million to lobby Congress directly on behalf of dirty coal and
against legislation to
fight global warming and promote clean, renewable electricity.