No, President Obama Is Not A Hall-of-Fame-Worthy BS Artist, aka Why I Defend The ACA

[Spider Jerusalem]

30. Sure it is.

Because climate change and its effects pose an existential threat to life as we know it. Failing on the environment renders anything else pretty inconsequential; in realistic terms? It's fiddling while Rome burns, rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, pick your metaphor. The consequences of climate change and adaptation are the great problem of public leadership in our time; within 30 to 50 years, cities like Miami and New Orleans are projected to be underwater, the temperature rise in the Southwest is projected to bring permanently arid conditions to most of what has been for the past 50 years the USA's most productive farmland, we're looking at large-scale food and water insecurity and population displacement and a host of other effects, and what do we get? "Fracking for natural gas is building a bridge to a low-caron future!" which is kind of like saying "well, I've been diagnosed with lung cancer, so I guess I'll switch to smoking Carltons".