[Tommy]

Originally Posted by Gunner

The disaster is cumulative and almost universal instead of being localized like an earthquake or even a hurricane.

Whether it's caused by human activity or is a natural change in conditions such as has happened on an almost continuous basis for eons, it's going to change the rules of food production, energy distribution, water resources and the balance of arable land in our lifetimes. It would be nice if we could get our sh!t together and deal with it instead of turning it into another politicized clusterfork.

You describe the phenomenon of global warming as a "disaster" rather than the kind of change in the world's environment that has been going on for the past 4 billion years. Why? I see the world's endlessly growing population as a greater challenge in the areas of food production, energy distribtution and water resources than global warming. And I still don't see why a changing world is necessarily bad news for everyone. Why is this everyone's problem instead of the problem of those people who will be hurt the most?