Like it or not, former vice president Al Gore has become an elder statesman of the Left, elevated mostly by his regular displays of environmentalist piety, including his one-sided documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth.Like it or not, former vice president Al Gore has become an elder statesman of the Left, elevated mostly by his regular displays of environmentalist environmentalist a person with an interest and knowledge about the interaction of humans and animals with the environment. piety, including his one-sided documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. And he has certainly invaded the schools. Canada's National Post recently reported that one high-school student was forced to watch the documentary four times in one year, with little in the way of rebuttal or debate. The student reported that the film was even shown in his economics class. (They don't call it "the dismal science Dismal Science A slang term used to describe the discipline of economics. It was given this description by Thomas Carlyle, who was inspired to coin the phrase by T. R. Malthus's gloomy prediction that population would always grow faster than food, dooming mankind to unending " for nothing.) We extend our sympathies to anyone unfortunate enough to have to listen to Gore's sanctimonious sanc·ti·mo·ni·ous adj. Feigning piety or righteousness: "a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg that looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity" Mark Twain. droning for hours on end, and lament that modern education has bought into his brand of environmental hysteria. Surely there are more edifying ed·i·fy tr.v. ed·i·fied, ed·i·fy·ing, ed·i·fies To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement. ways for students to be spending their time. Lunch? |
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