Dick Cheney: Even if there's just a 1 percent chance of the unimaginable coming due, act as if it is a certainty.

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...If a 1% risk of terrorist attacks justifies trillions of dollars of wasted defense spending (spending our Congress will not cut) why do we ignore a threat to our nation and our world that has been shown to be significantly higher. Insurance companies take global climate change seriously as a threat to their business. The Pentagon planners take climate change seriously as a national security risk. Yet our media and our politicians do not, whether out of ignorance or cowardice or greed. They squabble and fight and deny and act like fools in a lifeboat that is sinking.

There is a famous line in the film Lawrence of Arabia in which Peter O'Toole as Lawrence states that:

[S]o long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel ...

Today, I think he would say that line about Americans. Meanwhile, in the Colorado mountains just outside Denver, mountains I no doubt once climbed and where I no doubt once hiked as a child, wild fires burn in March.

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