What hairs did I split? What distinctions that made no difference? What did I exaggerate?
Crickets.
I already pointed out that crop failures have happened before industrialization, before the climate started "changing" because of mankind.
Your trademarked straw man strides out on the field. You are very predictable.
I also pointed out that industrialized societies have overcome crop failures with major advances in agriculture, and that whatever crop failures occur due to a "changing climate" are easily overcome by said industrialization
Not even vaguely true. When the US has a major crop failure, like the corn crop in 2012, the global price of that commodity goes up. When Russia and then Australia had wheat crop failures, the global price of wheat went up. Not a problem in developed countries where food costs are like 5% of income, but if you are spending 80% or more of your income on food, like in much of the world, it is a different story. You seem to be laboring under the assumption that there is no global market for food, all food is local. That hasn't been true for a very long time.
These conditions have much more implications on national security than "climate change."
There you go again. Just pulling shit out of you ass. Those conditions exist. Probably isn't going to change any time soon. Severe droughts in those countries makes their lot more dire. But droughts don't only strike 3rd world countries. They also strike food exporters like the US. and that has global implications. With the possible exception of rice, crop failures in grain crops of the major food exporters ripples throughout the global market and that has the most impact in the poorer countries.. And that has national security implications.
It is people like you who are trying to bend reality to fit your political agenda. Because that is what you are doing here. You have filtered everything through the filter of your partisanship to construct a "reality" that isn't very close to what actually happens.
And then you cap it all off with your trademarked straw man.
Cause you know, if the climate didn't change, crop failures wouldn't happen, people would stop revolting, and terrorism would cease to exist.
No one ever said that. Nor was it implied. Like with many things, you seem to take the position that unless we can solve a problem cheaply and completely, we shouldn't do anything at all. Even if it makes the problem worse. |
