The answer is simple; climate change! With such an enormous challenge facing civilization one would think that a concerted effort would be made by everyone to address the situation. Not so. In the world powerhouse USA we have a republican party that denies climate change for no other reason other that it costs money to address the problem. They are more concerned with their money than the safety of thousands of people who live along the coasts.I am unable to understand what appears so obvious to be rejected by these people.
Islam.
Humanity has a fair chance of dealing with global warming, but Islamic world conquest will result in the end of civilization.
Excuse me? Christian world conquest is resulting in the end of civilization! Open your eyes!
@Healthydoc70
Christian doctrine does not call for world conquest. Compared to Islam, Christianity is fairly benign.
The big question seems to be why aren't we... humanity/nations doing more... doing anything really significant about climate change? Maybe in dark back rooms in private meetings, the power-that-be don't want to actually do anything... not yet. Not until a large portion of the population is gone.
Follow the money!
@Healthydoc70 Yep.
aliens.
the trumpers really are from some other planet
@Marine There you go Marine, I rest my case. Space Aliens to be Exact. Like always Marines backing up the Navy if not Leading The Charge... Semper Fidelis.
The reason the Reepublicans do not like to talk about climate change is because they are making a lot of money selling gas as in gasoline and natural gas. As long as profit talks they will no acknowledge climate change.
Very well stated. Their first requirement is to make money they will never spend so they can passit on tax free under trump.
Climate change is not the greatest challenge of civilization. Climate change is a byproduct of a society that prioritizes poorly what we should be concerned with. This is due to a combination of dishonest leaders and massive mistrust in anyone outside your preconceived ideas.
If our society could properly focus on what is important, climate change and the problems it would cause for humanity has simple answers that we can put into place if we could figure out how to agree on facts and work together.
Politicians generally only look to the next election. Trump knows the coal mining and other industries which use fossil fuels are behind him, and the workers who are employed in these industries will re-elect him if he keeps his promise to trash all the green energy initiatives. I just hope all the other countries who have signed up to the Paris Climate Treaty keep to it, but we need the US on board too.
"Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies."
I quoted a tweet from someone else here because it captures in a nutshell how absurd it is to still be denying climate change and that mankind is predominantly responsible. This has been known now for 30 years and the evidence still being collected unambiguously supports this.
This is so much like when Big Tobacco created disinformation campaigns to confuse and cast doubt on cigarettes causing cancer. Now we have Big Oil with Trillions of dollars at stake trying to do the same thing and they know how to influence the government, they have politicians bought and paid for and they have a propaganda campaign where is no object.
This is so obvious, the science is clear, the evidence is clear, but it's easy to confuse the public.
United States is the only developed country, for example, where more than 60% of the population does not believe in Evolution. There is so much religious and political propaganda.
Yes, climate change is an existential threat even the Pentagon realizes this.
What do we have to lose by developing alternative, renewable and clean energy. Nothing to lose, everything to gain... so why are they trying stop it?
As humans in many cultures in many time periods we have destroyed our environment, causing the need to abandon cities (like Anchor Watt, many Mayan and Aztec cities and other ancient cities all around the world).
We evolved to survive immediate dangters and to supply immediate needs, but it doesn't appear to be hard wired into us to take care of our environment, and now we are destroying our entire planet, not just a few random local environments. We have few and swindling place to move to left on this planet.
at jorj. your words I quote from below. "at least the republicans aren't making false promises to get votes. And the dems are more evil?" -Excuse me, I can't be kind about this. Are you XXXXcking stupid?? What rock did crawl out from under?
How about peace? That might solve a multitude of problems