In shock decision, National Security Council stops work on climate change

Posted by Great-Help7394@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 28 comments

Published recently on Times of Israel, this article covers a decision that has everyone outside this subreddit shocked.

Collapse related because the NSC has decided that climate change is not an existential threat and no longer merits our concern.

This could be flaired under "conflict" just as well. From the article:

> Some 40 of the countries most in danger of water shortages are in the Middle East. Since 2011, dozens of violent conflicts over water have been documented in the region. In the most serious case, water shortages caused 1.5 million Syrians to leave their villages for the cities, creating the preconditions for the country’s civil war.

Worth remembering that Bernie Sanderbern Sanders was the first major US politician to blame the Syrian civil war on environmental collapse. He told the truth - which is why he was never gonna be president.

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jaymickef@reddit

Obama also listed climate change as one of the factors in the Syrian civil war but the blowback was immediate and strong so he dropped it.

Before the current war we heard Iran would be running out of water in a matter of days. Haven’t heard anything about that since the war started, wonder what’s going on.

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GroundbreakingPin913@reddit

One of two things:

The USA killed enough people that there's more water to go around.
The regime inside Iran is not letting everyone have water.

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Sigmond-Condrite@reddit

I also heard that after iran destroyed the radar israel used for cloud seeding their drought lifted and they got a years worth of rain in a week.

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Great-Help7394@reddit (OP)

Yeah I hear a lot of things too. If it sounds ridiculous, it usually is. I'm sorry to tell you - there's no jew space lasers. And there's enough about this military base, sorry I mean - totally real country - to be angry about. No need to just make stuff up.

"I heard"

Come on man. If you're gonna be like that, at least be convincing.

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redditmodsRrussians@reddit

I also heard that the ducks in the park are free….

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84zx@reddit

Are you stupid? The people killed so far during the conflict with Iran represent 0,00004% of Iran’s total population. Absolutely insignificant change as far as water availability is concerned

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Sanpaku@reddit

All the Pentagon climate scenario analysis that featured in Gwynne Dyer's Climate Wars occurred during the similarly troglodyte Bush administration. I expect the brass will continue funding studies of emerging threats that rely on IPCC models of climate change and less known models of collapsing crop yields. They'll just redact mentions of "climate change" until a new administration comes.

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Great-Help7394@reddit (OP)

We really didn't deserve Gore, did we... I would have voted for him, sadly I was 5 years old and more interested in my toy cars. Selfish, I know.

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GlockAF@reddit

But we DID deserve Bernie Sanders, and not that long ago.

Stolen from us by the DC Decorum Democrats, whose actual mission is to ensure that there will never be another FDR, and that there will never be another “new deal”

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redditmodsRrussians@reddit

What few major shipyards we have left will be completely dumpstered once sea levels rise enough. There was a doc a few years ago stating at least one major shipyard in the US already becomes inoperable during high tides so I guess

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sausagesizzle@reddit

"until a new administration comes."

Yeah, um, about that...

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bipolarearthovershot@reddit

That orange turd is going to ride out his dementia into a 3rd term, I’m picking up what you’re putting down

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inquartata@reddit

Thinking out loud, might be totally wrong here...

But is it possible they are thinking in an "Us vs Them" situation, Israel would be able to focus on Israel and be able to handle it better than its neighbours?

I cannot think muslims would be willing to emigrate to Israel. So no immigration problem due to climate change. War? They have experience and might think they can handle it. No change to current status basically.

Maybe that is, erroneously, the way they are thinking?

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Great-Help7394@reddit (OP)

Remember when big oil was telling the president we don't need to drill more? We're drilling plenty already. He wouldn't hear it. Bigger is always better in that tragic mind.

Imagine having less of a soul than an oil lobbyist.

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