Disentangling Urgency from Foolishness: Exposing the Climate-Terror Paradigm
After 11 September 2001 the country recognized an urgent threat to its security. The debate prompted by this tragic event is still relevant even after three Presidential elections and eleven years -- how much of our civil liberty do we sacrifice to mitigate this threat? Military tribunals, library records, torture, and transparency. We are still questioning compromises of justice and privacy for the end state of security. This debate will last for centuries, much like the threat. "Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin Fire fighters at the World Trade Center in 2001. Are we making a foolish sacrifice to mitigate the threat of climate change? Rising seas, extreme and destructive weather patterns, lives lost, property destroyed, and degraded ecosystems. Climate change is an urgent threat. The toxic cocktail of carbon and other poisons that we have already spewed into the atmosphere has created a climate that will punish us