Yes, that’s right: a “global civil war.”

Consequently, Gore urged, the rescue of the environment must become the “central organizing principle” of all societies and modern civilization. This will require not just sacrifice and struggle but “a wrenching transformation of society.”

Al Gore prophesied nothing short of environmental Armageddon, an apocalypse, and called for a crusade. The word crusade, in this case, had religious connotations, in contrast to when FDR, Eisenhower, or Reagan called for “crusades” for freedom.

Indeed, it is rarely recalled that Earth in the Balance carried the instructive subtitle, Ecology and the Human Spirit. This environmental manifesto was a sort of spiritual autobiography by Gore, his epistle to Mother Nature, his adoration of the Earth. This is evident in the chapter, “Environmentalism of the Spirit,” where Gore insisted that the “environmental crisis” demands “a new faith in the future of life on earth.”

So, in short, Al Gore’s remarks in London are nothing new.

In a just world, or at least, in an America where “journalists” provided objective news coverage, these Al Gore absurdities would have been exposed long ago, and this man would have never gotten close to the vice presidency let alone the presidency. Of course, that’s why journalists never touched them, in the hopes that Gore’s scary statements would never see the light of day—or of television cameras.

What’s even scarier is that a majority of Americans took this man seriously enough to vote him president in 2000. We dodged that bullet, but Al Gore’s dream lives on with sudden renewed vigor, as the most leftist president and Congress in American history stand poised to make it a reality. (“Cap-and-trade” is the first shot in their environmental salvo.)

At long last, Al Gore’s “wrenching transformation” may be upon us, courtesy of Americans’ choices at the voting booth.