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Originally Posted by demonrail666
People will rightly say that if the predictions relating to climate change are right, then we won't have a planet to save from poverty, etc, in the first place. But these are at the end of the day predictions, while deaths are actually occuring now as a result of the other issues.
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It's more that in the forseeable future rising sea levels combined with severe drought in many regions and increased storms in others are likely to increase exactly the problems you, er, rail against:
unemployment, poverty, war, healthcare, famine, poor education, crime, urban decline, et al.
Seriously, we count so heavily on crops flourishing in a few places on our planet to then truck them to another, that climate change is likely to have devastating effects in a relatively short term. Which doesn't mean we shouldn't be attacking those problems from both ends.
And of course you don't hear Al Gore, or sadly much of anyone else, talking much about the fundamental root cause of that problem and all of those others: over-population. Hard enough to get Americans, and increasingly China and the rest of the world, to admit that our consumer culture has obvious impacts on the environment - try to get anybody to admit that birth control is a viable solution.
I'm sure that Inconvenient Truth probably makes some valid points about global warming, but it just doesn't take away from the fact that the guy who made it shoved NAFTA down the throat of the American people so that our corporations can go to other countries to skirt what few environmental regulations we have!