Bilgeman at # 27:

Spot on. That’s the really sinister part of Gore’s article. That Gore is “bonkers,” as Roger puts it, seems too mild an atribute in light of this novel, as far as I can tell, salvationist idea: “what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption.”

I don’t know what’s most frightening and sickening in this single phrase … The “us” implied in “what is at stake is our ability to use the rule of law” versus “them,” the rest of humanity that needs redemption … The idea of secular law as an “instrument” of “human redemption”..
In Gore’s own words, it seems that what’s at stake is not really “human redemption” from ecological sin, but Gore’s and his caste’s ability to force it on others through the power of law, as if this is what our laws/Constitution entailed.