[Announce] The inconvenient truth about The Inconvenient Truth

[Robert Waldrop]

Below is an email I just sent to a national 
religious organization that is planning to 
distribute free copies of Al Gore's "Inconvenient 
Truth" DVD to religious groups.  RMW

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I have heard that you are distributing the DVD "An 
Inconvenient Truth" to religious congregations.

The Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House is very 
committed to the "Care of Creation".  We promote 
permaculture, local food systems, and energy 
conservation.  We organized a food cooperative 
that only sells local foods ( 
www.oklahomafood.coop ) which now has nearly 800 
members and is doing $20,000 in product sales 
every month, with 95% of the money going direct to 
local farmers.  Every year or so we publish a new 
edition of the Better Times Almanac of Useful 
Information, a guide to sustainable living, 
http://www.bettertimesinfo.org .  We are going 
through an "Extreme Green Renovation" of our 
property here in Oklahoma, which you can read 
about at our website, 
http://www.energyconservationinfo.org .

We also believe it is important to work for peace 
and justice, and that is why I am writing you 
today.

Former vice president Al Gore has a major role in 
the film An Inconvenient Truth.  It is based on 
his book by the same name.

How soon we forget that as part of the 
Clinton-Gore administration, he presided over the 
deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi 
civilians, who died as a result of the cruel 
embargo originally imposed upon them by the first 
Bush administration, and then maintained through 
THREE presidential administrations and SIX 
congresses.

Madeline Albright, who was secretary of state 
during the Clinton-Gore administration, when asked 
about these deaths, even though many of them were 
children, replied, "We think the price is worth 
it."

That was the position of Al Gore about the 
slaughter of the Iraqi people.

I think we should work to ameliorate global 
climate change, but I do not believe that we 
should choose methods that are evil.  Glorifying 
and publicizing a politician guilty of mass murder 
is a grave evil, even if the message the 
politician is giving is ostensibly good.

Do you not think that the murdered civilians of 
Iraq deserve to be remembered?  Do we not owe them 
justice?  How do we justice to them and their 
memory when we glorify one of those who helped to 
kill them?

I encourage you to find a different way to 
effectively work against global climate change 
that does not involve praising a mass murderer.  I 
pray that you will cancel your plan to distribute 
copies of the Inconvenient Truth DVD and tell the 
public AND Mr. Gore why you are doing this.

No good will come out of a partnership with a mass 
murderer.

Bob Waldrop
Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma 
City
http://www.justpeace.org