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Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat
skipkent writes "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared global warming a national security threat [Wednesday] during a speech before an environmentalist group in Washington, D.C. 'The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security,' Panetta told the Environmental Defense Fund last night. 'Rising sea levels, severe droughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.'"
And that is human nature, and precisely why nothing ever gets done before it's too fucking late to make any difference whatsoever.
a Gore-sucker
They'll never be receptive, because they've already made up their minds. It's been shown in several studies that if you show a conservative evidence that they're wrong, it just makes them hold that belief even stronger. You cannot debate with these people in a rational manner. And this milquetoast, always-compromise approach doesn't work. The thugs will walk all over us every time. They have to be beaten down, shoved aside, and ignored. We can never convince them of truth, because they don't believe in it. We can never compromise with them, because they don't believe in that either. All we can do is work around them, and hope they don't kill us in the process.