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Better funding through Chemistry: Gore and Dow Chemicals.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  April 17th, 2010 at 09:37 PM  | 

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Not to correct the Independent - oh, who am I kidding? I love to correct the Independent - but the correct term is ‘bribe.’

Gore takes cash for water campaign from chemical firm

Al Gore, the self-styled squeakiest-clean and deepest-green politician in American history, has some explaining to do this weekend. His environmental organisation has taken money to raise awareness about the need for clean water from a controversial chemicals company involved in the aftermath of one of the world’s worst pollution disasters.

Dow Chemical, the US firm which now owns the leaking pesticides factory responsible for thousands of deaths in Bhopal, India, is sponsoring Life Earth events in 150 cities today. The event aims to raise money for clean water programmes. Research by environmental organisations has found dangerous levels of highly toxic chemicals in rivers, lakes and other water supplies close to several other factories owned by Dow and its subsidiaries in countries including the United States, Brazil and South Africa.

Or maybe ‘protection.’ Dow Chemical gives Gore money; Gore purifies Dow Chemical with the light of his countenance and his status as head of that strange little sect that he’s created over the last decade. It’s less money than Dow Chemical would need to spend to be in compliance with environmental demands, so everybody wins.

Well, everybody who isn’t simultaneously: in the environmental movement; and, a rube.  Those sorry sad sacks get to stew in silence again while their betters enjoy the good life.  Which is not a particularly attractive a lifestyle to me, but then I’m not a religious fanatic.

Moe Lane

PS: Actually, no, Al Gore will have to do no explaining at all.  Explanations are for those who do not Speak For The Trees.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • 6eorge Jetson

    until I read that, Moe.

  • Richard Mullins

    with all that black smoke coming out the back.

  • i8bugs

    I’ll never understand how these shake-down artists survive any level of scrutiny. Ah, I just answered my own question.

  • rbdwiggins

    I lean more toward extortion. It appears the payment was made to insure protection from the rabid environmentalists.

    But, these types of arrangements usually produce clear winners and losers.

    The “environmentalists” will continue to extort large sums of money until such time Dow Chemicals is forced into compliance.

  • johnt

    caused by humans, you know. Dirty automobiles, carbon dioxide spewing people, ruffled Earth Mother Gaia, and poof, we got a volcano. Our fault, billions more in research required.
    I wonder how many cars you have to drive for how long to match this?

  • wilfranc

    the “Dow helps you do good things” commercial jingle a couple of decades ago? I live in Dow’s neighborhood in Michigan. When I went to college in the late 80′s, my liberal government professor’s take on Dow’s campaign was the effort to counter the bad publicity of polluting the Tittabawassee River. The whole dioxin/dredging political mess is still going on, mainly fueled by emotive arguments which are never rational.

    Dow is using Gore’s easy to flatter personality and Gore’s ability to self-justify his actions give good cover to his greed.

    I don’t care how Dow spends its money, and I don’t care what Al Gore’s thoughts are.

    Dow is wasting money on people like me, possibly helping where those still under the green spell are concerned. Dow makes lots of extruded foam for insulation, and locally has advocated using foam in place of wood sheating from a energy position. from an engineering position, especially for you in the south, it is a poor hurricane resister. Yes, you can add corner bracing, but full house wood sheathing is best for resisting wind.

    As I wrote that, I had a funny thought about Al Gore being windy.