Why Climate Change Always Has been and Almost Always Will Be the Greatest Threat to Civilization
As usual, something that is common sense and shouldn’t even be part of a debate has become political charged. What a surprise!
So lets explore the malcontent. Many people are upset that multiple politicians, namely Bernie Sanders, are making statements that Climate Change is above and beyond more dangerous than Isis (or Isil, or Daesh) Predictably, this has been hit with criticism by a majority of people.
I don’t think that it needs to be pointed out that a majority of human beings on this planet lack vision, or really have a grasp of common sense (oops, did I point it out again?) But instead of going on some Calvinist Rant about how hopeless our species is, instead I’ll explain why Sanders is right and a majority of the Human race (as usual) is wrong.
Lets compare the two groups.
Isis in the worst case scenario, gets a nuclear missile with launch capabilities and fires at a a densely populated city. Lets use New York which has a population of roughly 8.5 million. The explosion will kill almost all of these people, the radioactive decay will kill roughly another 1 million over the next 10 years or so. Also New York will be rendered uninhabitable for a while along with the surrounding areas.
Meanwhile, lets look at a scenario that is pretty bad considering climate change, but is not the worst case scenario (Ill get to one of those in a moment.) The water levels rise a couple hundred feet due to melting ice. New York City goes underwater, along with about 1/3 of its population, which is not 8.5 million. Here’s the problem, New York won’t be the only city affected.
EVERY SINGLE CITY ON THE COASTS WILL BE HIT
Sorry for the all Caps there, but I needed to get the point across. Now I don’t know how many people total live on America’s coast, but I can assure you that if roughly 1/3 of that population is killed in floods, its a much higher number than 8.5 million. Also unlike the nukes, these areas are permanently uninhabitable. Nuclear Fallout pales in comparison to flooding on this scale.
Now lets look at how to stop both these problems.
Isis, can be stopped by a combination of not letting fear control our lives and military might. The good thing about Isis is that it is run by people. People have this unfortunate problem of being able to get killed. Its called mortality. You may have heard of it.
Climate change can be stopped by a combination of… actually, it can’t be stopped, it just kinda happens. We can slow it down so we don’t get hurt by it, (which is what needs to be done) but if a flood is coming, the best thing to do is run away from the problem. You can have all the guns and weapons you want. Mother Nature laughs in the face of your pathetic mortality, and when she is done with you, you will be killed like the gnat you are.
So yes, clearly one of these is a bigger problem than the other. Also, should (when) the floods happen, lots of people will become refugees. And since most of the refugees in the world have for our history, been considered terrorists and or enemies of the home country, I curiously wonder what happens when the people who are most hateful of refugees become their own enemy?
Oh and to go back to my older point about worse disasters, there is a volcano in Yellowstone National park, that when it erupts, will kill every single person in North America. Good luck fighting that.