The Allentown Morning Call ran an editorial cartoon this morning with five panels. The first was of a terrorist, labeled Al-Qaida. The second showed a figure labeled Iran with the caption “nuclear weapons.” The third, “genocide,” had a rendering of Assad, labeled Syria. The fourth, with a guy labeled “Europe,” was entitled Financial Calamity. The last panel featured an excited Obama yelling, “Coal is threatening the planet.”
Fast forward to the year 2113. Very few of us will be alive, but think ahead 100 years. Do you think Al-Qaida will still be around? Do you think people will be worried about Iran having nuclear weapons? Will Syria even exist? Will anyone remember 2013 European economic problems?
What about global climate change? Will that be a problem 100 years from now? You betcha.
I’m sure this cartoonist thought he was being clever. He wasn’t. 100 years from now, the global population will look back and wonder why our priorities were so screwed up.
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