Have you noticed that Democrats always compare their agenda to something good like civil rights? It’s always framed the same way too.

(Insert liberal cause) is the new (insert older, respected cause).

Lauren Clark of Campus Reform reports.

Al Gore tells Princeton students climate change is the new civil rights movement

Former Vice President Al Gore compared the fight against climate change to the civil rights movement, and called on Princeton graduates to help to do their part at the university’s annual Class Day.

Gore said that American society must agree that there is a problem before it can move to make a change. He recalled a childhood memory in the South about a friend who made a racist remark; his other friends were quick to tell the student to “shut up,” and informed him that such thinking was no longer acceptable.

In the same way, Gore suggested progress can be made for climate change through changing the discussion.

“After the conversation was changed, the laws were changed,” said Gore.

Though Gore declared that decisions must be made “on the basis of reason and the best available evidence,” he warned against those who are skeptical on scientific evidence of global warming.

“They are merchants of doubt who present falsehoods in an effort to confuse people to the point where they can’t recognize the truth,” said Gore. “They are doing exactly what the tobacco companies did 40 years ago, they hired actors and dressed them up as doctors.”

Instead, Gore advised students to take a firm position on the issue, arguing that “[t]he will to act is itself a renewable resource.”

Gore was appointed by the senior student body to speak and was made an honorary member of the class of 2014. Typically, the speaker for Class Day is a Princeton alum; however, Gore is a graduate of Harvard.