Reply #16: Peak oil and climate change [View All]

[Jed Dilligan]

Are guaranteed to ravage us as no terrorist could ever dream of doing if we stay on this schedule. If we simply don't act on these issues, we are guaranteed, if not a ghastly death, an impoverished and anarchic world.

I don't think they should stop screening passengers on airplanes, nor do I think international police authorities should stop tracking down international terrorists. Beyond that, I really don't see anything we can do to stop terrorism--fixating on it does not seem to help (cf. London and Madrid subway bombings).

There's the better foreign policy argument, but I don't really buy that either. As long as modernity persists there will be malcontents that want to turn its machinery against itself and blow the whole thing sky-high. If we do stop using oil and mucking around in Mideast politics, the terrorists won't be Arab or Muslim anymore, but there will be some other kind of terrorist with some other beef.