Toles- Ho hum, unlivable
By Tom Toles
What could be of less concern than some guy somewhere who loses his way of life because of ours? http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/04/21/displaced-by-drought/ In case the link doesnt work (which has been happening a lot here lately) or because youre not a clicker, its a brief item about how climate change has rendered an agricultural region in Africa unusable.
Naturally this wouldnt be terrorism of any kind on our part, because were not trying to scare him or anything. We dont have any particular bad feelings toward him. We dont have any feelings toward him at all. Its just not a concern of ours. You have to put his life and livelihood in the larger context of our comfort and convenience. Its not terrorism if its about comfort and convenience.
No, its fine if his farmland dries up and blows away. Completely fine. Ask any elected representative in the United States government if its fine. Yes its fine. And when we see more of this in the years to come? Thats fine too. In fact, we are seeing some of it in our very own country, or we would if we could bring ourselves to look. But we cant. There are larger factors at stake. Comfort and convenience being foremost among them!
But we do ask ourselves about terrorism, because that does concern us. How could anybody be so indifferent to the real suffering of others that they would deliberately inflict so much harm to innocent people, and to what purpose??? A real puzzler, that one!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tom-toles/post/ho-hum-unlivable/2013/04/23/0aeac1e8-ac2f-11e2-a198-99893f10d6dd_blog.html