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Bernie said climate change was the cause of terrorism

I don't want to try and defend the logic of this claim, but has anyone here ever actually read the studies/arguments correlating climate change and terrorism? It's way more complicated than "A causes B," but I don't think that's any reason to reject the connections outright.
 
The connections are irrelevant because you don't defeat ISIS or strengthen national security by fighting climate change, a process that will take hundreds of years to do.

He said we have to tackle climate change in response to the Paris attacks in 2015, that's an utterly redundant and retarded response to something like that. I understand the connections.
 
The Middle East didn't become agriculturally destitute because of western coal, and Wahhabism or Baathist tyranny wasn't seized on as a solution because of CO2 emissions.
 
The connections are irrelevant because you don't defeat ISIS or strengthen national security by fighting climate change, a process that will take hundreds of years to do.

He said we have to tackle climate change in response to the Paris attacks in 2015, that's an utterly redundant and retarded response to something like that. I understand the connections.

This was clearly a poorly formed argument on Bernie's part, but why can't we fight both?
 
This was clearly a poorly formed argument on Bernie's part, but why can't we fight both?

Because one is an immediate danger and one isn't. That's why it was a stupid thing to say to begin with in my opinion, even if you agree that there is something we can do to stop man-made climate change, it's solved over such a long period that to even bring it up after a terrorist attack is just pathetic and opportunist as fuck.
 
This was clearly a poorly formed argument on Bernie's part, but why can't we fight both?

A lot of political leaders suggest the turmoil in Syria and Libya is exacerbated by climate change (droughts), but obviously Bernie still mispoke.

But let's be honest, our and other western nations policy of giving aid to these nations have indirectly caused a dramatic increase in population that has found itself lost in a world without adequate basic resources (food and water) as well as without proper employment. But nobody wanna talk about dat.