Parents want their teenagers engaged in positive extracurricular activities. If your kids are playing sports, acting in the school play, writing for a newspaper, or participating in student government, they are less likely to be drinking, smoking, and otherwise getting in trouble. Good parents cultivate their children's interests.
Most parents whose child has signed up for Al Gore's new initiative, Inconvenient Youth, are likely pleased that junior has taken an interest in an important policy issue. Far better to ruminate about ways to improve the environment than to waste time playing video games or watching Jersey Shore reruns on...












Inconvenient Facts About Inconvenient Youth
One company sells CO2 scrubbers. They are expensive (tens of millions each) and basically do very little. But if the US makes them manditory for industry here, he will quickly become a billionare.
The reason the researchers lied is also due to money. The governments of the world give them billions each year to "research the problem" and try to find a solution. If they actually did find a solution they would all be out of work. They aren't that stupid.