Don’t believe in global warming? Al Gore says you should be punished. Al Gore said We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas. Boston Massachuttes set their all time record for snowfall in one winter season. But if you don’t believe in global warming, or at at least skeptical of it, you need to be punished. I don’t know what it is with progressive liberal Democrats and their fetish for being authoritarians.
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| Al Gore: We Need to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’ |
For the third time in the last few years, Al Gore, founder and chairman of the Climate Reality Project, spoke at the festival on Friday. Naturally, his interactive discussion focused on addressing the climate crisis. The former vice president focused on the need to “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science,’” said the Chicago Tribune.
Gore said forward-thinking investors are moving away from companies that invest in fossil fuels and towards companies investing in renewable energy. “We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,” Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap-and-trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon-emission limits. “And in order to do that, we need to put a price on denial in politics.”
He called on the tech-minded SXSW crowd, which is dominated by Millenials, to harness technology to launch a grassroots movement to tackle climate change and call out climate deniers. “We have this denial industry cranked up constantly,” Gore said. “In addition to 99 percent of the scientists and all the professional scientific organizations, now Mother Nature is weighing in.”