Somebody really should take Mr. Gore aside and explain the imagery this name and the “personal blessing” by Gore conjures up. Newsbusters has a story on the creation of this group back in 2008, with the backstory on the connections of the people involved.
Press release:
Inconvenient Youth: Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection to Launch New Initiative on Earth Day
The Climate Project Will Invite Five Teenagers to be Trained Personally by Gore
Inconvenient Youth Will Build Next Generation of Environmental Leaders
For immediate release: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Press inquiries: Carrie Criado, 615-327-7577, press@theclimateproject.org
Laura Burton Capps, 202-567-6800, press@climateprotect.org
Washington, D.C. and Nashville, TN — Teens who want to make a real difference in the fight against climate change will now have a place to share their pledges, actions and ideas. Inconvenient Youth (www.inconvenientyouth.org), the new teen climate education initiative of The Climate Project, a program of the Alliance for Climate Protection, will launch on Earth Day, April 22. Inconvenient Youth will also enable five teens to participate in The Climate Project’s upcoming Our Choice Training with Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore, to be held in June. The initiative dovetails with the Alliance’s Repower America “youth surge” campaign to organize students on college campuses across the country.
“Inconvenient Youth is built on the belief that teens can help lead efforts to solve the climate crisis. It will give this generation – which has a unique stake in this issue – a chance to organize and exchange ideas with other young people who want to do their part to address the climate crisis. Perhaps most importantly, this initiative was inspired by youth and shaped by youth with their unique viewpoint guiding it forward,” said Gore.
more here: http://www.inconvenientyouth.org/blog/?p=81
Here is a video trailer, note the laptop. Mr. Gore is on the board of Apple. The VW says “powered by vegetable oil”. Only one problem, it still produces CO2 when the oil is burned. Since Mr. Gore’s focus is on CO2 and not NOx or Soot, or SO2, you’d think they would have labeled the VW as “electric”.
The other problem with vegetable oil is that it is a finite resource. There is only so much used vegetable oil in a city available, so it really isn’t a “sustainable” concept beyond just a few vehicles.
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NOTE: I know there will be a temptation to draw parallels with a another “youth” name, please commenters, don’t go there as all such comments will be snipped.- Anthony
h/t to CTM
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I know a few yutes and it’s really frightening the things they ‘learn in school’ — a lot of which is not true.
Fortunately it is quite easy to get them fixed.
Why just 5 teenagers? Shouldn’t there be 12?
Earth Day. Lenin’s birthday.
Maybe long-time Earth Day advocate Ira Einhorn took the whole “recycling” thing a little too far when he “composted” his girlfriend’s remains in a trunk in his closet…
Back in 1970, Earth Day was a grassroots hippie event. The organizers chose April 22 – which just “happens” to be the birthday of their Soviet Communist hero, Lenin:
“One of the self-identified ‘founders’ of Earth Day, Bay Area activist John McConnell, has written that in 1969 he proposed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors a new holiday to be called Earth Day on the first day of spring, the Equinox, around March 21. But, he writes, in 1970 local anti-Vietnam War and Environmental Teach-in activists ‘who were planning a one-time event for April 22, also decided to call their event Earth Day.’
http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m4d21-Earth-Day-founder-murdered-his-girlfriend
So after this start, Algore is going to press for youth re education camps.
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Well, he’s losing the battle with rational adults, so terrifying and manipulating children is the logical next step, before they’ve got to Piaget’s stage of rational thinking.
When you name your group “Whatever Youth” can you really be suprised when parallels are drawn? It’s like he is asking for it in order to get more attention and maybe sympathy.
The other problem with vegetable oil is that it is that it requires a lot of people eat a boatload of french fries.
Computer models have indicated that brainwashing needs to begin at a younger age.
We can hope that indoctrination isn’t a permanent change. Some will learn to see it for what it is.
When anyone goes after the kids (either Captain Crunch or politicos) I get the creeps. The eco-shriekers have no soul.
Absolutely disgusting.
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Can you leave one parallel up? You’ve piqued my curiosity and I’m drawing a blank.
To your main point, if I still believed in global warming and didn’t think the science had been tarnished, I would still want to distance myself from An Inconvenient Truth–a movie a large plurality (soon to be a majority) of the public has come to realize is manipulative, unscientific propaganda.
Gore should be looking to cut ties with his past sloganeering and try to appear fresh and new.
If he can.
Ah dang….I’ll just snip myself then: SNIP.
god help us, 5 mini me’s a la Gore. bring back Austin Powers.
Al Gore is preying on those that do not have fully developed cognitive abilities and lack any real world experience because he can no longer fool anyone else.
Perhaps he will issue brown shirts and arm bands to them.
Looks like child abuse to me.
When I read the heading I thought It referred to plastic surgery or botox, but it is much more insiduous, it is about the indoctrination of teenagers in the creed of Global Warming! . Is it not enough that, all over the world (and this is a reality) kids, my grandsons among them, are already indoctrinated with all that politically biased crap?
I am reminded of that old saying, “Youth is wasted on the young”.
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They should be Convenient Youth, since they have apparently already been brainwashed as to develop such ideal “unique viewpoints.” Does the VW also say Transfat free?
“The Climate Project Will Invite Five Teenagers to be Trained Personally by Gore.”
Personal attention by Al baby?
Hmmm. I’m almost tempted to mention some other ongoing scandal …
What other machinations must he have in store?
Why bother with contentious, skeptical adults when it’s so much easier to scribe one’s will on the blank slate of youth who will ask no difficult questions.
Further proof that it’s not the harsh martinet of science that lures Gore, but the siren song of an appealing narrative.
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Look up an old German dictator for the one specific parallel he is refering too.