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Originally Posted by island911
No, global warming is not sufficiently scary. In fact because it is not even close to being a reality the "Global Warming" guys started a campaign to change the label to "Climate change." It's like the big event fizzled out, so they have to position for global cooling --wait, it it 1980 again?-- Or, maybe it could be warming . . either way they are covered now with "Climate Change."
But all of that aside, there exists the "what are you going to do about it?" Q.
Terrorism: we can and are handling it.
Earth's temp: uhm, yeah, let's control the ball o'fussion in the sky. ...because you sure as hell are not going to change this planet's temp with "carbon credits."
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First of all:
There is no one statistic that viably says we are containing terrorism. What terrorism? Which type of terrorism? Nuclear, economic, environmental terrorism? There are many forms of terrorism, not just the exploding type that you wrap your arms around as "terrorism that is contained" -- which it's not. Look at Iran. Look at Russia. Look at Venezuela. Are they "contained?" Look at the violence erupting (again) in Iraq - not that Iraq was even a terrorist state.
Secondly,
in regard to global warming - the real terrorism - 30 yrs. was the last statistic I saw that was given to the Brazilian rain forest's time limit due to global warming and deforestation. Again, because of the medicinal ingredients that come from the rain forest, and how much oxygen it supplies earth, bodes well to see where true terror lies once those resources are gone.
You ask what will be done about it? Who knows. Global warming is a much more complicated threat than the threat in whose head one fires a bullet and calls it "containment."