In your opinion, what is the bigger threat today?

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To one of my questions, this was in one of the answers-

"I think right now people are concerned about their pocketbooks given the current economic status. People are going to frown on any additional taxes, regulations that may incur due to programs created to "fight" global warming."

I was wondering how many people believed that the current economic troubles outweigh the environmental problems we face today? What would you tell someone who thought that the economy was a bigger problem than global warming?
Oh I guess I should add: Why?
 
The biggest threat of today's world is Global warming. This is now considered as global warning.
 
I would tell them that they are absolutely right that the economy is a far greater issue. The theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming can't be proven and has very serious questions. How much sense does it make to bankrupt the economy over an unproven theory? Also look at what would happen if we stopped using all fossil fuels today. We wouldn't have the energy for the medical technologies that save and extend human life. Millions of people globally starve to death today and without the energy needed for farming we would see those numbers rise to hundreds of millions of lives lost to starvation. We would loose the ability to power the very science that improves our lives. What sane person would want to do that?
 
Economics are a far more serious problem than global warming...Who do you want to pay for fighting global warming ?...The poor ??
 
Whether or not you believe in global warming or to what extent man made carbon emissions play in it. Other factors are more than reason enough for the US to pursue a comprehensive energy policy focused on clean renewable technologies. Not least of which is it will take the money we are currently sending to the middle east for oil and keep it here at home to build wind mills, solar panels, electric cars and update the power grid that will not only give us the energy independence we desire but also create jobs and revenue here at home. Plus we won't have to fund our army as well as our enemies.
 
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