CBS News Blames Climate Change For Taliban Strength
“If you’ve lost your crop and land or the Afghan government hasn’t paid enough attention [to you] then of course, the Taliban can come and exploit it”
Every once in a while, it becomes crystal clear that the media thinks its job is to push the pet political projects of the progressive left.
In this case, we have a real news report claiming that climate change is partially to blame for the rise of the Taliban.
This is not The Onion or the Babylon Bee.
This is CBS News:
How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban
Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change. The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry. And the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.
While agriculture is a source of income for more than 60% of Afghans, more than 80% of conflicts in the country are linked to natural resources, according to a joint study by the World Food Programme, the United Nations Environment Program and Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency. In 2019, Afghanistan ranked sixth in the world for countries most impacted by climate change, according to the Germanwatch Global Climate Risk Index.
Over the last 20 years, agriculture has ranged from 20 to 40% of Afghanistan’s GDP, according to the World Bank. The country is famous for its pomegranates, pine nuts, raisins and more. However, climate change has made farming increasingly difficult.
Whether from drought or flood-ravaged soil, farmers in the region struggle to maintain productive crops and livestock. When they cannot profitably farm, they’re forced to borrow funds to survive. When Afghans can’t pay off lenders, the Taliban often steps in to sow government resentment.
“If you’ve lost your crop and land or the Afghan government hasn’t paid enough attention [to you] then of course, the Taliban can come and exploit it,” said Kamal Alam, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center.
This was my reaction to the story:
Have you ever met a person who is obsessed with one particular topic and somehow always steers the conversation back to that topic no matter what you're talking about? https://t.co/JUUPPusd82
— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) August 20, 2021
Here are a few more Twitter reactions:
Hey everyone, this Taliban takeover isn't the President's fault! It's yours. You didn't buy enough electric cars. https://t.co/dhSAjV0kdC
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) August 20, 2021
It's starting to feel like an infomercial
"Climate Change…Is there anything it can't do!?!" https://t.co/b9GO4gKFQL— F. Bill McMorris (@FBillMcMorris) August 20, 2021
I actually laughed out loud https://t.co/LAZUoPz5RR
— isaac leverenz (@isaacleverenz) August 20, 2021
"Hey Google, is it possible to punch a tweet?" https://t.co/dTOglGKw4o
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) August 20, 2021
It’s like the left has a wheel with all of their favorite issues that they just spin to decide which thing is responsible for any given problem.
Either that or a dart board.
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Time the propaganda machine did some introspection.
No need. They already know they are hacks who have sold their integrity.
The machine is broken and all it does now is blow out hot air.
If the power is interupted Kamala Harris, who is waiting as back up and has expertise in this area, will step up and put her lips on it.
Which lips?
Like Goeebels should have had introspection? They are egotistic hacks, paid to be liars and nothing else.
Ya! They didn’t even mention the most profitable cash crop in Afghanistan: Poppies.
CBS is wrong. The real problem is white nationalism.
Or maybe it is voter ID. No, it is the lack of a “zero tolerance” policy about correct pronouns. Whatever.
Whatever the cause, I think they’re showing a pretty serious lack of gun control.
Which is why we need to confiscate all firearms in the US. Because if we don’t, the kinder, gentler Taliban V2.0 will win.
Not Trump? Well, I guess that’s “progress” of a sort.
TWEET ?
At least we did not suffer through tweets telling us how the Taliban have kicked our ass due to inept woke politics overtaking actual military operations.
You know, reality.
The leftists prefer their safe spaces where they can live like sheep and pretend there are no worlds in the world. Easily misled morons who will accept anything at face value – so long as it is packaged in the right way (see virtue signal). Blame everything on Climate Change or Trump or both. For a party that claims to want to get at “root causes” of the border crisis – they’re really good at misdirection.
Except food production in that country has doubled in recent years, no doubt as a result of American guidance and spending on technology and fertilizer.
The next time a proggie spews this Climate Change bullshit to my face, I’m going to punch him in the throat.
Nah, just laugh in their face
Then punch them in the throat.
If you google it, there was also a 37% increase in opium poppy cultivation in 2020. Also, for the science-deniers, an increasing CO2 level is beneficial for plants.
“The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry.”
Poor, poor, Afghan Farmer Goldilocks!
“This field is too wet!
“This field is too dry!”
“This field is just right… but it’s in Pakistan!”
And when the Three Talibans returned back home, they found Farmer Goldilocks asleep!
Oops! I apologize. Pressed thumbs down by mistake.
What is hilarious is that only oldsters, who don’t cotten to this drivel, still watch CBS; thus alienating the core of remaining viewers. I predict (based on my climate models) that CBS will soon come a cropper.
Even 40 years ago, I referred to CNS as the hemorrhoid headache network. It seems the majority of their ads, even back then, was for Preparation H, and for Anacin.
CBS not CNS
They’ve perfected their understanding of their viewership: millions of Americans with their heads up their *ses.
Come on, guys.
This is obvious.
They have to blame somebody other than Biden, and climate change is the guy who can’t push back.
CBS? Are they still in business? Who knew?
So, climate change has impacted the Poppy crop?
That’s different because,….er…..uh…..shut up you anti-science insurrectionist!
They might as well announce that due to climate change things don’t look good for Americans stranded there. But climate change aside, that is the biggest news: “Things don’t look good for Americans.”
Hardly any have been rescued so far. Hope grows more dim with each passing day. Reminds me of the rescue operation after the collapse of the Condo in Miami.
CBS = BIDEN IS A HERO
You see the people who are about to be slaughtered by the Taliban are * actually * being killed by climate change that has enabled the Taliban. So directing $3 Trillion to climate change is attacking the “root cause”. The same way Kum-ala has spend 6 months investigating the “root causes” of the border crisis. So it’s obvious to CBS that Biden’s $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure plan (not really infrastructure, wink-wink) must be adopted by Congress. And if the Rs block it they are complicit in the deaths of all those killed by Taliban. And so it’s Trump’s fault.
See the Leftist logic ? ?
“6 months investigating the “root causes” of the border crisis.”
It’s like paying an architect four figures to determine the root cause of why your front door won’t stay shut, and having him report that your grandkid keeps leaving it open.
Your argument would work a lot better if the infrastructure bill was after the afghan events. Since it isn’t , your attack the logic doesn’t make a whole lot of sense does it.
“the infrastructure bill was after?”
It hasn’t been passed yet, moron. That’s the point.
Perhaps CBS can explain how Climate Change is going to impact the Trillion dollar worth of rare-earth metals that China is about to lay claim to.
Yes: Haliburton.
Or something.
‘Famous for it’s pomegranates; taken advantage of the pain’
The glaring omission in the list of crops would certainly ease some of that pain.
These people believe that their viewers are stupid. Sadly, they are correct enough that many of their viewers will buy in to this tripe.
Just about everyoneon a collge campus buys this dangerous crap.
They don’t have to buy into it. It’s free to minorities, low income, food stamps, SNAP, unemployed, undocumented, single mothers, and those subject to rent moratorium due to COVIDS. For those who can’t breathe a policeman will deliver it to your door.
Do I detect a note of cynicism?
Biden took a knee and sociopolitical climate change followed, Forward!
Kamala takes two knees so things might be twice as bad in the near future.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
That’s because Biden is lacking something. If Biden were one of the characters in the wizard of oz, would he be:
A. Scarecrow with no brains
B. Cowardly lion with no courage
C. Tin Woodsman with no heart
And would Kamala be:
A. Wicked Witch
B. Wicked Witch
C. Wicked Witch
Wasn’t that the Wicked Bitch of the West?
Slow Joe has his own army of flying media monkeys
And, remembering his public speaking appearances, Obama is the Wizard of Uhhs.
Remind me which character was the one who had no balls.
Another sad reminder of just how incredibly ignorant the members of the left wing really are.
Maybe climate change slowed down the Taliban’s advance by a few hours.
Climate change affects all people in negative ways.
No speculation is too idiotic for the sheeple who watch and give credence to MSM “news” purveyors. I used to worry that they vote and would soon approach 50% of the electorate. Then, Xiden’s installation showed that to be the wrong threshold of disaster, too high by 5-10%.
“It’s like the left has a wheel with all of their favorite issues that they just spin to decide which thing is responsible for any given problem.”
I have a photo of it.
Told you yesterday that the narrative will drop Afghanistan and come back to the agenda. Probably by Wednesday you won’t hear a peep about Afghanistan or biden’s* total eff up. He should be impeached immediately.
Which would work out if the repubs had a spine. Don’t allow a vote on a veep replacement and we can end this green deal bullschiff.
You never end anything. You just kick the can down the road. Trump’s stint as president proved that.