Two Straight Debates On National Security, And No Questions About The Real Threat To The Globe

[tecelote]

Source: Huffington Post

In a Democratic debate focused on national security Saturday evening, one topic was notably missing from moderators' questions: climate change.

Even though a major climate agreement was reached recently, it didn't even come up during Saturday's two-hour debate or the GOP debate on Tuesday.

Climate change can increase the likelihood of migration pressures and change the availability of natural resources, which can lead to conflict among different groups of people. The issue has also been linked to the cause of the Syrian civil war -- which the candidates did spend a chunk of time discussing Saturday evening.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democratic-debate-climate-change_567626dfe4b014efe0d5cc56

[randys1]

1. And I dont get it, why do they do this?

[Gregorian]

5. Because the money that's invested in the media is also invested in war.

Just keep us focused on fear.

Meanwhile, doing the responsible things like infrastructure, and attention to climate change don't have an immediate return on investment. Same thing for bailing the criminal bankers out, while leaving us with the tab.

[tecelote]

6. Exactly.

Take the profit out of our wars and they will end tomorrow.

[EndElectoral]

8. It is amaziong after Obama has a major climate change meeting, no questions on climate change. Odd.

[skepticscott]

12. Politicians get no credit

for being proactive and averting crises, and they know it. They get far more mileage out of letting a crisis happen and then appearing to be a "strong leader" once things have already turned to shit and a lot of people have died.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

19. Follow the money. n/t

[pscot]

16. Stupidity and venality?

[cantbeserious]

2. By Design - The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Always Deflect The Narrative To Scare The Masses

eom

[ViseGrip]

3. Sanders is the only one who DID say CLIMATE CHANGE IS OUR REAL THREAT.

Did you miss that? The moderators moved on quickly. Hillary nor O'Malley said a word.

Sanders IS THE ONE who keeps saying it, because it's true!

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. O'Malley mentioned it too

Sanders:

I'm running because we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change and take on the fossil fuel industry and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.
...
O'Malley:

The other big challenge we have is climate change. The greatest business opportunity to come to the United States of America in 100 years. We need to embrace this. I have put forward a plan that does this, that moves us to 100 percent clean electric grid by 2050.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/19/3rd-democratic-debate-transcript-annotated-who-said-what-and-what-it-meant/

Not a huge mention from either of them, it's true.

[MH1]

13. O'Malley has been saying it for a LONG time. nt

[Marty McGraw]

15. What of HRC's

Take on it?

[jalan48]

4. How can we continue to "Go shopping" as George Jr. told us to do after 9/11 if

there's this big, overriding, game changing issue facing us? There's really no way for the folks making the money off of the 'go shopping' model to spin this. Their answer is to ignore it and tell us to keep thinking Disneyland style.

[jwirr]

7. I'm baking for each family this year. Only shopping at the

grocery store for basics.

[jalan48]

9. I'm buying some things for family, not a lot.

I think our model is the problem. In order for things to be "good" we need to consume and increase consumption every year. It's a basic problem with capitalism. It's a system that requires infinite growth which exists in a finite physical environment. Something has to give and in this case it's the climate.

[JEB]

11. Do not affend the sponsers.

The only rule in contemporary politics.

[Duppers]

14. K & R

Thx for posting this.

[malthaussen]

17. The reason is simple

You can't bomb Mother Nature.

-- Mal

[7962]

18. If Islamists continue to spread, where the shoreline is wont matter.

And its not going to be brought up much because the polls show the topic way down the list with voters.

And tying climate change to Syria is ridiculous. The trouble in Syria comes from the people being tired of the iron rule of a dictator and trying to overthrow him. And then fighting more among themselves than fighting the dictator's army creates even more problems than they had to start with