Climate Change Cannot Be Ignored

Climate change is a crisis that cannot be ignored. Whether climate change is "real" is no longer a relevant debate-- despite the Orange Megalomaniac's insistance, there is a 98% concensus among the nearly 30,000 studies that have been conducted, and it is only growing.

Perhaps the general resistance to addressing climate change stems from an ignorance of its serious ramifications. It alters weather patterns, which leads to the more severe hurricanes and wildfires we have seen in recent years. It melts large glaciers from the poles, which flow into the streams and make the more populated areas cooler. (Global warming is the incorrect term.) It causes drought that leads to increased tension in already-water-sparse areas, which is why it has been designated a national security issue by the Department of Defense. It causes coral bleaching (endangering 25% of ocean life by killing reefs) and causes ocean acidification. Air and water pollution are also caused by the industrial activity that causes climate change.

Climate change is tied to virtually every issue of defense and environmental protection in the world, and a lack of education could be responsible for unprecedented and catastrophic events on an even greater scale than today. If we are ever able to claim that we have advanced as a society, we must address issues by thinking, in the old Iroquois way, of the impact our decisions today will have on the next 7 generations.