Gore Calls It As It Is

In a beautiful and eloquent op-ed in this Sunday's New York Times, Al Gore addresses the climate skeptics head-on and puts the politics of climate change in its historical context. The problem we now face is this:

From the standpoint of governance, what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.

You could probably substitute this quote for just about any environmental or social woe now faced by this country. It is literally a fight between those who believe that government and publicly collected tax dollars can actually be used to improve people's lives and those who simply say no to every politically crafted solution to our nation's problems.