Some Eco stuff

Try this for concretising the cost of not dealing with climate change now:
"if just one flood broke through the Thames Barrier it would cost around £30bn in damage to London, roughly 2% of GDP." a top British scientist spells out the implications of not acting on climate change and restates that climate change is more serious than terrorism as a threat.
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However, if you want to think a bit about the terrorism threat try this article which seems to say that the AlQaeda threat could be around for 50 years:
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In fact this article is quite interesting in several ways. It focusses on the military and inteligence ways of dealing with it. Surely one of the things we have to learn [not least from the Irish situation] is that there can be no lasting solution to threats of terrorism without dealing with the causes and that throws us straight back to the geopolitics of the USA, Europe etc and their/our political and collective decisions about energy use and lifestyle -there's no getting away from the ecological angle even if you think the terrorist threat is most major. In addition to energy use we might also think about the threat posed by unfair trade rules in building resentment in some quarters and the likelihood of land use changes bringing about migratory forces. A juster world is a safer world.