terrorism and climate change

Israel:

When you think about Israel, you get some strange pictures in your head. Usually for a mildly well informed Indian, you think of a Jewish nation in the Middle East, constantly under attack by terrorists. In fact most of us might even sympathize with Israel, it seems they are pretty high on the Al Quaida hit-list, just like we are.

But if the WHO , along with scientists from along the world are to be believed . It seems that climate change is a bigger threat to human life than terrorism.( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3381425.stm for all you skeptic boys and girls) For most of us, who have lived with trains and buses being bombed are probably the only ones who can imagine the reality of those words.
Believe me, I would love to give the climate skeptics a chance, and say that climate change is just a myth , a joke, a cosmic parody . Sometimes I really wish it was.

A small pop quiz :

1. When you plant a bomb in a public place and you kill 20 people. They call you a terrorist. Its completely unforgivable , You get the life sentence.

2. What do you call yourself when you are doing something that will leave a 80 million people in your own country homeless? This is not the first time we have dealt with numbers that size . Remember the partition of India and Pakistan? Remember the horror stories you grandparents told you? Remember the wars that followed and the bitterness that exists 50 years later between our two nations? .... Remember?

Now multiply that number by 10 times. And imagine….

What name will you give to the people responsible for it?

I take out my dictionary and skim through it, but somehow none of the words . terrorist or mass murderer or genocidal maniac does the trick ( genocidal maniac comes close, but even Adolf Hitler was only responsible for about 5 million deaths, and that’s still too low a score )

I leave you to it….