Seth McFarlane Thinks Global Warming Is A Bigger National Security Threat Than ISIS

This week Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane endorsed self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders for President, while introducing Sanders at a fundraiser in Hollywood. In his opening remarks, McFarlane said some things that left my head spinning!

He said:

I wanna tell you the moment when, for me, Bernie Sanders won last night’s debate. The question was asked: What is the greatest national security threat to the United States?…Senator Sanders was the only candidate on that stage who gave the correct answer: climate change. Of all our biggest challenges, from social inequality to healthcare, this one is the one that must go immediately to the front of the line.  Because it’s the only one with a non-negotiable timetable. He’s the only candidate on either side who truly seems to grasp the magnitude of the catastrophe. You can hear it in his voice when he talks on the subject.

So let me get this straight, Seth, you think the single greatest threat to our national security is global warming?  Not the thousands of jihadists who have publically vowed to obliterate America?  Not countries like Iran and North Korea who hate us and are seeking nuclear weapons?

Do McFarlane or Sanders even know what national security means?

Mollie Hemingway at the Federalist says of McFarlane’s comments:

Revisit MacFarlane’s comment. He listed two other challenges that climate change was more important than: social inequality and health care. Why? Because, he said, the timeline on climate change was more important. Let’s leave aside the wisdom of viewing the centralized state as the solution to any of these problems and simply acknowledge that social inequality, health care, and climate change aren’t national security issues! Social inequality may be super important to MacFarlane, who has a net worth of $150 million and is #86 on Forbes magazine’s list of the wealthiest 100 celebrities. It may be one of the things he thinks is really quite problematic. But his list is a list of either domestic problems or global problems that are not warehoused in the national security complex.

Because when we want to know what a candidate thinks about national security, that’s a cue to talk about armed forces, spy networks, and diplomacy. Talking about climate change, as Sanders and Obama have done in recent days when asked about it, comes off like an attempt to pretend that an unsafe world is safe. […]

But in the real world, with real problems in and with regard to China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, and elsewhere, we need our political leaders to be serious and sober about when and whether to engage and how best to protect our country. Wishcasting these real national security threats away in favor of any other problem doesn’t actually make them go away. Conflating national security with climate change is detrimental to both issues.

We need serious candidates for President, because regardless of what those in Hollywood say, our nation is actually facing major national security threats.  And sorry, Seth and Bernie, global warming is not one of them.

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