First Politifact and now Factcheck.org goes after Bernie Sanders on climate change and terrorism

[PatrickforO]

5. In this case the 'fact checkers' are full of crap.

In the end, terrorism is about the have-nots and the haves. Period. Climate change is causing an increasing number of people to not have enough. People who don't have enough turn to violence to get what they need.

Consider the Somalis. They were peaceful farmers and fishers until big trawlers from Russia and Japan fished out their waters and drought dried up the crops. Then the problem was compounded by European corporations dumping toxic waste off their coast because it is cheaper to do that than dispose of it regularly.

Warlords rose up and the starving people followed them. They became pirates. The 'civilized' world considers this to be very bad, but it is the economic policies of the 'civilized' world that create people who commit acts of terror.

Climate change is going to create massive instability and yes, acts of terror, as it advances. Our military is certainly looking at it that way - here are several links suggesting a causal relationship between climate change and terror:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/11/14/does-our-military-know-something-we-dont-about-global-warming/ (interestingly, the Military Advisory Board study cited in this article has been removed...money must have changed hands somewhere)

http://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-report-us-military-considers-climate-change-immediate-threat-could-277155

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/73339/20150731/pentagon-report-concludes-that-climate-change-is-a-us-military-problem.htm