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Climate change is unleashing and will unleash starvation and war on millions of people.

Why?

Because of climate change, agriculture is not possible in parts of the world where it was possible just a few decades ago, leading to economic catastrophe, food insecurity and mass migration to areas that will not welcome more people because it puts their own populations at risk. And that's before we factor in cultural, ethnic and religious clashes between these people. Rising seas will engulf high density areas that cannot easily transfer their people and economic centers of activity elsewhere, leading to more conflict. This is and will be true in many parts of Africa and south Asia, for example.

In the colder parts of the world, rising seas and loss of permafrost make it life-threatening for indigenous people to continue living like their parents and grandparents. I'm thinking of the Saami people herding reindeer in northern Finland, for example, but it's true for all tribes around the Arctic Circle.

And then you have the effect on richer nations: we have the means to displace populations from coastal regions, build hurricane-proof homes, build outside of flood zones and fire zones, even though right now we're not doing much.

Yet consider global trade: this country is currently IMPORTING ITS ANTIBIOTICS (and rare earths critical to electronic circuitry, as well as a whole lot of foodstuffs, like coffee, and products we deem essential to life as we know it). We cannot escape the domino effect. As soon as developing nations economies are crippled by climate change and cannot pursue their usual trade, we will suffer immediately.

This will happen in your children's and grandchildren's lifetime. It started a generation ago, although you didn't know it. This year, hundreds of Americans died because of extreme weather conditions, such as the new type of super-fast, super-hot, uncontrollable wildfires in California. Increased frequency of extreme weather events are part of climate change. You are complicit in the deaths of your fellow countrymen if you don't take action right now.

I hope you understand that unless you believe in chaos, death and destruction, any world religion supports the preservation of life.

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