The Sanders/Obama/Nye Conjecture

by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: When some of America's most illustrious public figures -- Senator Bernie Sanders, President Barack Obama, and Bill Nye the Science Guy -- proclaim global climate change as the "obvious" cause of the rise of ISIS (and recent rounds of terrorism), it's time to consider:

Is it climate change that is responsible for the recent rash of mass shootings in the U.S., most recently in San Bernardino?

There is a drought in California -- a water shortage, anyway.

But that is caused more by overuse and underpricing of water resources -- itself the result of public, not private, water resource management -- than climate change.

Isn't it more likely that people on the margin of stability -- call them "crazy" or just evil -- take cues from other shooters in the news, draw inspiration and then draw guns?

And fire.

America's non-Muslim, home-grown mass murderers don't seem to be making a clear point. Syrian refugee and European ISIS-sympathizing Muslim radicals do seem to be making a point -- but one quite tangential to Bill Nye's nifty causal chain: man-made global warming leads to droughts; farmers leave the country for the city; over-strapped cities lack water and jobs; frustrat-ed male (and female) refugees go postal.

Hey Bill, don't war and drone strikes, not to mention tyranny, also cause instability?

But then, so would cutting back on fossil fuels: the whole mid-east region runs on fuel sold to the West. If we fight ISIS by combating CO2 emissions, and if the Sanders/Obama/Nye Theory is correct, we'll just get more ISIS.

Copy-cattery and ideology explain this evil better. Not climate change.

This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob.
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Paul Jacobs is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacobs is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service.

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