Roger L. Simon: Al Gore: Not So Down and Out in Beverly Hills

That Al Gore is an enviro-hypocrite is not exactly news and I would have ignored the fact that he served Chilean Sea Bass at his daughter's Beverly Hills (what happened to Tennessee?) wedding - except that I have been abjuring the fish for years, thinking it was endangered. And Chilean Sea Bass is one of my favorite foods! Even so I wouldn't dream of serving at a party for fear of coming under attack by the Green Harpies. Never mind that it is unclear whether these particular pisces were still endangered - I didn't want to risk it. But I'm not Al Gore and my noblesse oblige quotient isn't sufficiently high to ignore public opinion or my own guilty conscience. Maybe I need some fish offsets to go along with my carbon offsets.

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The next step in indulgences: I predict that--since there are many "progressives" who don't feel that they can afford to buy their own carbon credits (fish credits, whatever)--there will be a movement to give free credits to those in the "helping professions." Which will be defined as teachers, professors, social workers, and most especially politicians.

Shouldn't the next step be Al granting enviro-indulgences to others by fiat? And who will play the Global Warming Martin Luther to the Goracle's Pope Leo X?

Read the whole article! From the UK. The Humane Society (UK) is worried about the 'sustainability' of the fishery, that 'illegal' harvesting poses a risk of 'extinction'. Not depletion, but-OhmyGod- Extinction. This is simply preposterous handwringing, and, like the anti-Bush crowd, they're hung up on legality. Big government makes things legal, we want things legal, illegal is wrong because we write the laws and we say so.

I rather suspect that the Humane Society heavies are frequently jetting to Chile to study the matter further.

Do give me a break. Chilean sea bass is easily available here. Al Gore is a POS but on sea bass he's OK with me. Now, marrying his daughter off in Beverly Hills, not TN, is an altogether different matter, but hey, puts him closer to his son.

If memory serves, its real name is "Patagonian Toothfish," a former garbage fish roughly equivalent with Tilapia today. It's not even a bass.

I'll be happy to sell you fish offsets. I will sell it to you for about the same price of carbon offsets which was 28 cents per credit. In return I promise not to eat endangered fish for the rest of the year. For you this means you can feel good about yourself, just as you would buying carbon offsets from the Sudan.

David, we can make fish offsets smell great--let me broker those trades for you? We set up a fund, take it public, privatize it, apply for grants, lobby for earmarks, sell shares, float bonds, write options, trade futures. The Chilean Sea Bass can put us on Easy Street!

For the record.
Just because Al Gore has very likely got it wrong on climate change doesn't mean there aren't species of animals going extinct.

How many, how soon and what can we do (if anything beyond the endangered species act) is in my opinion an important debate we should be having.

You know, where I come from we have a name for people who do the kinds of things to endangered fish species that Gore and entourage did.....We call em....

I'll engage you on a discussion, Lem, not a debate, re extinction. Which has been going on for a rather long time before man got in the game. Why, I ask, imbue each and every species with a right to life when we do not, in fact, control outcomes to the extent we'd like to imagine. On some occasions, like whaling, yes we have a rather large role, as humans, but to generalize from that to the preservation of all species, pretty much regardless of cost? I give you the spotted owl, whose 'endangerment' turns out not to have been logging old-growth forests (ceasing that cost thousands of jobs, mill closures, small town eradications) but a competing owl species. What does one do about that?

Chiulean Sea Bass is endangered, but you can buy it from sustainable ceritfied fisheries. Which is exactly what the catering company did.

And did you forget that the groom's family is responsible for the rehearsal dinner?

July 17, 2007: Al Gore: Not So Down and Out in Beverly Hills

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