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Al Gore is a man of big ideas. Just ask him.
Earth is “in the balance.” The internal combustion engine is the ”greatest enemy of mankind.” Today’s political climate is “an assault on Reason.” And so on.
We all knew guys like this in college; now we duck them in the office. Guys who speak in paragraphs. Long, boring paragraphs. Al Gore is so tiresome he could put coffee to sleep.
Today our self-appointed Earthwise Evangelist issued an altar call to the true believers: Step out of the aisle, come to the front, and take a 7 point pledge to the Earth.  The 7 points are primarily political: pressure your government to do this, pressure your government to do that. And, by the way, work to reduce your emissions or pay for carbon offsets. Repent of your sin, or at least buy off your guilt. And, of course, plant a tree!
Gore’s movement is political, to be sure, but it’s primarily religious. His Live Earth concert was self-consciously scheduled on 7/7/07, and he has his own great commission: “”The general theory behind Live Earth is we need to get this information about the crisis and solutions to it to every person on the planet, as many of them as we can reach.”Â
Sheesh. Does this guy ever listen to himself?
What is interesting, though, is the backdrop for Gore’s big-tent-revival pledge. It was only just April of this year when Sen. James Inhofe gave Gore the chance to take a much simpler pledge: “I pledge to consume no more energy for use in my residence than the average American household by March 21, 2008.”
Here’s a simple question for our green readers: How on earth — pardon the pun — could Gore refuse to do that for our dear Mother?    Well, we quickly found out the answer: It became widely reported that Gore uses twice the energy the average household uses in a year, in one month.Â
Still, Gore has come out with his own pledge now, and he demands his disciples come forward. But here’s guessing that Gore’s gospel is not exactly in the model of Jesus. Apparently, it is more like Jim and Tammy Faye: “Sacrifice is for thee, but not for me.”Â