Global Warming & National Security

Unfortunately, there are still plenty of global warming skeptics out there spewing their "scam science" drivel. One way to difuse some of that "oil-based economy" vitriol is to introduce the proposition that the burning of fossil fuels is a growing threat to national security. Even if some in-denial-dolt still doubts the mountains of scientific evidence piling up on the impending global warming problem, they will undoubtedly warm to the idea that we should cut our dependence on middle-eastern oil and get out of bed with the unstable, volatile countries that control it. Yes, they may spout some blather about pumping more black gold out of our reserves in wildlife sanctuaries and offshore domestic oil fields, but ultimately it will dawn on them that cutting consumption and developing new, cleaner energy technologies is more productive than investing in some new pork-barrel weapons system and/or waterboarding thousands of suspected Jihadists.
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