Climate Change and ISIS?

So the world’s climate is changing fast and we just past 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide but is climate change one of the causes to blame for the rise of ISIS?

The Syrian civil war is probably partly due to the historical drought that hit the middle east and as our climate becomes more extreme, this type of thing may occur more and more, it’s going to be an unpredictable future we have on our hands… Climate change isn’t something that’s far away in the future, it’s affecting us now.

Oh with that said, Bernie Sanders released a detailed policy plan on how to deal with climate change.

Broadly speaking, Democrats like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton have long approached climate change as primarily a policy problem in need of a policy solution. You figure out what mix of regulations and taxes and technologies can most effectively reduce emissions and go from there, adapting to political realities as necessary. That was the idea behind the doomed 2009 climate bill. Start with a policy that economists agreed was efficient (cap and trade) and then try to get buy-in from interest groups.

Sanders, by contrast, tends to view global warming — and our inability to fix it — as first and foremost a question of political power. Our system is currently rigged in favor of fossil fuel interests, and by far the most important task at hand is to beat back those interests, to erode the status and power of oil, gas, and coal companies, to re-tilt the playing field. “The reason we haven’t solved climate change,” he says, “is because a small subsection of the 1 percent are hell-bent on doing everything in their power to block action.”

Source: Vox

Absolutely amazing, I agree pretty much with everything Bernie says and it makes me wish I were an American so I can vote for him. Feel the Bern to my American friends, there’s only one politician that actually cares about YOU running for president.

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