| A lie about Al Gore in Bjorn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist |
| On page 32 of the English edition of Lomborg's book he says: |
| The corresponding note in the notes reads this way: |
| This is a severe lie about what Gore wrote in Earth In The Balance. Gore didn't say anyone was like Nazism. What he actually said was almost the exact opposite: that persons unwilling to recognize the seriousness of the environmental problem were like some opponents of Nazism: one's who, unlike Winston Churchill, failed to see how much of a threat Hilter and Nazism really was. On pages 272-273 Gore says this: |
| 248. A prime example is Al Gore categorizing anyone not entirely convinced of the supremacy of the environmental question with Nazism (e.g. Gore 1992:272ff). |
| Over the past few decades there has been an increasing fusion of truth and good intentions in the environmental debate. 247 Not only are we familiar with the Litany, and know it to be true. We also know that anyone who claims anything else must have disturbingly evil intentions. 248 |
| It is worth remembering how long we waited before finally facing the challenge posed by Nazi totalitarianism and Hitler. Many were reluctant to acknowledge that an effort on the scale of what became World War II was actually necessary, and most wanted to believe that the threat could be wished away with trivial sacrifices. For several years before the awful truth was accepted, one Western leader spoke out forcefully and eloquently about the gathering storm. Winston Churchill was uncompromising in his insistence that every effort be immediately bent to the task of Hitler's defeat. After Neville Chamberlain concluded the Munich Pact of 1938, which gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler in return for his pledge to not take over still more territory, most Britons were happy and supported the policy that later was condemned as appeasement. Churchill, however, grasped the essence of what had occurred and of the unavoidable conflict that lay ahead... Thus do we meekly acquiesce in the loss of the world's rain forests and their living species, the loss of the Everglades, the Aral Sea.... |
| Here Gore continues with a long list of environmental problems humans have been failing, in his view, to adequately address. Obviously, Lomborg's words claim almost the opposite of what Gore actually wrote. Notice the innuendo in the wording Lomborg used: the supremacy of the environmental question. Sounds a bit like racial supremacy doesn't it? |