We know it's here, and we can reasonably predict the time line of its effects on infrastructure and social order. It's stupid to stick our heads in the sand, when there's much that can and must be done.

But it DOES show what is our biggest concern that should be used to frame how we prioritize how we deal with world problems so that even more immediate concerns about wars in the middle east don't swallow us in and have us blinded to what the net effects of our reactive responses are there in the big picture of how that affects climate change, and how those problems were brought on by climate change.

I liked how Bernie basically used that to say this is how an intelligent leader will need to think in terms of guiding principles of being thoughtful and prudent and not just being "reactive" in how they would lead.

We may need to take forceful actions in the middle east, but we need to think of how our emphasis on funding the military industrial complex and being sometimes the sole country acting on its own in theses situations affects what ultimately is the big picture of how we live as citizens of the earth and have to work for living on this planet for the long term.

For too long we've let the military industrial complex and the banking industry "govern" us as he also aptly put, rather than us adjusting how their roles should be in our society, and forcefully pushing them down the ladder at times when its needed also.

Still love how Bernie thinks like me in recently proposing putting a war tax in place to put a disincentive for us to get involved with wars that are often questionably more to fund the military industrial complex than solve real problems out there, and those profiting from those wars not paying the price of them that they push on to the rest of us.

Finally, someone GETS it!