Endangered Species a La Gore

Article By Writer Michael Kraft Author: Michael Kraft
Published: July 19, 2007
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Only a week after Live Earth, eco-warrior Al Gore didn’t do much for his green credentials when he shocked fellow environmentalists by serving up an endangered fish at his daughter’s wedding rehearsal dinner.

The former US vicepresident provided 75 guests with Chilean sea bass - one of the world’s most threatened fish species.

Gore, 59, who created the climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, sampled a sixcourse tasting menu at Beverly Hills’ Crustacean restaurant which included the sea bass - also known as Patagonian toothfish.

Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under huge pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.

It is known as one of the world’s most endangered species of fish. Evidently a fact not known by the Gores.

Al Gore hugs daughter Sarah who is to marry businessman Bill Lee

The gaffe will have been even more embarrassing for the Gores because they tried to make the wedding between Sarah Gore and businessman Bill Lee - who met at a function for An Inconvenient Truth - as green as possible.

Sarah, a 28-year-old Harvard graduate, is currently a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the Gore’s youngest daughter.

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2 Responses to “Endangered Species a La Gore”

MoZ on July 19th, 2007 4:58 pm

The fish was sustainably harvested:

The restaurant later confirmed, they had come from one of the world’s few well-managed, sustainable populations of toothfish, and caught and documented in compliance with Marine Stewardship Council regulations.

As the source cited notes, there is jeopardy from “illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities.” There are none involved here. Therefore no “embarrassment” and, frankly, no story.

Of course if people are going to scrutinize Al Gore and every move he makes and every bite he ingests they are going to find evidence of imperfection, which they can blow up into a big hissy fit and call - gasp - hypocrisy, as some have tried to do with this. Is anyone here perfect, even on the things they care the most about? It is not possible to be an environmental saint in a world filled with consumer goods, dirty power, food of questionable origins. Al Gore has never claimed to be perfect. The truth is that Gore is a LOT more consistent than most people are. (And Gore is really not the kind of enviro-purist who thinks everyone should go live in a hollow log and grow their own food anyway.)

And let’s not lose sight of the fact that Gore’s big issue is reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He’s not on a crusade to save every fish on the planet!

These attacks on Gore personally, such as the one you cite above, really amount to a way to avoid the reality of global warming and are getting pretty old. The next thing you know someone is going to break the big story of how Gore’s underwear isn’t made of organic cotton!
Michael Kraft on July 19th, 2007 5:49 pm

I am still in disbelief that you think global warming is the most important issue of our current election and time.

I got no problem with gore, Its not my article in the first hand sense.

I do have a problem with global warming becoming the world wide distraction to much more dangerous and real problems of the day.

He can eat pandas for all I care about the issue, I wont think its right to do, but not my place to judge him on a personal level.

I drive an 8 cyclinder monster, he can eat rare fish. But while eating that fish in my SUV I would still like to not be distracted with concerts and hacky sac circles frmo the much more important issues in the world.