Alarming to see that only 32% believed that climate change is the greatest threat - to the West, yes, but to North, South and East too. If you can't get your head round the idea of the world experiencing a succession of hottest months ever, and what that means for all our futures, then you're in la la land, I fear.
I cannot believe that anybody with half a brain could possibly think that Climate Change wouldn't be top of the list, any list, regardless of what the other choices were. THINK ABOUT IT!
Climate change (and the associated ecological destruction) is a mortal threat to many other species as well as humans and seems almost impossible to stop now.
The West is its own worst enemy since it doesn't want to work with others but rather control them through sanctions and war, or threats thereof. Incompetent leadership is the greatest threat to the Western world.
Trump’s return would facilitate all the rest, except possibly falling birth rate. Since climate change is brought on by the ever-increasing numbers of human beings, a falling birth rate is an absolute necessity if we are to have any hope at all. Resources are limited, contrary to popular belief.
Democratic decline. Which is not exclusively 'Trump' or 'populism', it's much broader than that. With declining democratic regimes, the West will be unable to tackle the other problems mentioned in the list.
Trump will come and go, but climate change will only come; it won't go away during the lifetime of anyone who is alive now.
"Collapsing birthrates" are actually needed for a sustainable planet.
I paused because it’s a very sobering list of options.
What is it that Republicans see in the lying, draft dodging, tax dodging, woman raping, child abusing, racist imbecile that we don't?
Alarming to see that only 32% believed that climate change is the greatest threat - to the West, yes, but to North, South and East too. If you can't get your head round the idea of the world experiencing a succession of hottest months ever, and what that means for all our futures, then you're in la la land, I fear.
I cannot believe that anybody with half a brain could possibly think that Climate Change wouldn't be top of the list, any list, regardless of what the other choices were. THINK ABOUT IT!
Climate change (and the associated ecological destruction) is a mortal threat to many other species as well as humans and seems almost impossible to stop now.
The West is its own worst enemy since it doesn't want to work with others but rather control them through sanctions and war, or threats thereof. Incompetent leadership is the greatest threat to the Western world.
Trump’s return would facilitate all the rest, except possibly falling birth rate. Since climate change is brought on by the ever-increasing numbers of human beings, a falling birth rate is an absolute necessity if we are to have any hope at all. Resources are limited, contrary to popular belief.
Trumps return and Climate Change we can and are dealing with. War with either China or Russia would be catastrophic, even if it only lasted a week.
What about "The West's" threat to world peace? Why is this question posed as a "threat to the West"? Why not to "world peace"?
Democratic decline. Which is not exclusively 'Trump' or 'populism', it's much broader than that. With declining democratic regimes, the West will be unable to tackle the other problems mentioned in the list.
Poll results suggest the readers of this newsletter are no less delusional than the average Twitter user
In 10 yrs time Trump will be 'too old' or maybe even have slipped this mortal coil. Climate change will however still be with us.
Russia now. China, later.
Trumps effects can be blunted because he is only one human; the climate crisis can only be blunted by all humans acting.