CBS: Bernie Sanders doubles down on climate change-terrorism link
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders doubled down on the link between terrorism and climate change Sunday in defense of his stance that global warming presents the greatest national security threat to the United States.
"If we are going to see an increase in drought, in flood, and extreme weather disturbances as a result of climate change, what that means is that people all over the world are going to be fighting over limited natural resources," the Vermont senator said Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," elaborating on an arugment he made during the CBS News Democratic debate Saturday night. "If there is not enough water, if there is not enough land to grow your crops, then you're going to see migrations of people fighting over land that will sustain them. And that will lead to international conflict."
Pressed by moderator John Dickerson over the explicit link between a drought and the Paris attacks this weekend, Sanders took the connection one step further.
WNU Editor: Bernie Sanders has his many supporters .... Why Bernie Sanders Was Right To Link Climate Change To National Security (Think Progress) and here .... Bernie Is Absolutely Right: Climate Change Makes Terrorism Worse (Slate). The problem with this position is that Islamic militants have been waging war and carnage for 1200 years .... long before the industrial revolution came into being.
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Actually I would agree that climate change was a factor in the emergence of Islam. Specifically, the desiccation that destroyed the advanced south Arabian city-states has contributed to the social instability in Arabia that predated the original Islamic revolution. And subsequently, similar events that damaged urban, settled societies and made nomadism and banditry more viable had never failed to be seized by the purificationist groups. So while you might say it is the fault of those Islamic fundamentalists, or Muslims in general, there is no denying that environmental problems are largely responsible for the socio-economic woes that give them their opportunity, time and again.
It's just that very often it was not man-made climate change that did it, or certainly not the sort of it that is being campaigned against today.
Daniel .... I always joke with my brother (who is the scientist in the family and a man-made global warming advocate) that as much as man may influence weather, it is minuscule to what Mother Nature can do, and more to the point .... what the Sun can do. Therefore .... governments should forget about imposing their carbon taxes on all of us .... they should put a tax on the Sun.
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