Reply #38: His motivation was morally wrong, you are trying to sugar coat it.

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I don't know about the Iraq war being a threat to the human species. It was certainly a threat to 20 million Iraqis (a million of which ended up dead). The circumstances of the Iraq war were that the Bush administration made it politically inconvenient to vote against it. What you seem to be advocating in this thread is to go with the politically right move, not the morally right move as long as you say your long term intentions are good.

Global warming is a threat, it is not a threat to the human species as we know them. Yes, many people will die. Yes, economies will crash. Yes, there will be huge problems we probably can't imagine. But it will not be the end of the human species, infact I think the only people that will truly get screwed by it are the poor people on this planet (as with everything else).

Al Gore is a typical politician. We see this same shit in Obama today. Why do we not have cap and trade? Because Obama thinks that fighting for it will cost him votes. Whatever excuse he comes up with 10 years from now won't be relevent. As I said above and I'll repeat again, what's important are the decisions that you make today, not the regrets you have tomorrow.