All the other moral criticalities will pale: genocide of a million in Sudan? Compare it to 20 million dislodged from their homes in densely built waterfront ciites around the world.

Or perhaps the horrific slaughter of six million jews in pre-war Nazi Germany is the top moral failure of humanity? Compare it to TWO HUNDRED million losing their homes, villages and worksites – their whole community – and having nowhere to go, as a gradual rising of ocean levels, made extremely harsh when a typhoon or Nor’easter blows its winds, drives the higher water levels deep inland and floods roads that had been the way goods were delivered to those lowland residents. Slowly they must back away from the waterline and seek available sleeping space – as the larger country around them suffers incalculable economic injury, its balance sheet suffering an overwhelming set of stressors: increasing governmental restrictions on atmospheric carbon release in a world carbon market, damaged and swamped import-export shipping docks, more high wind damage than insurance can cover, drought so long-lived that what water is available is muliply re-used, all trees have been harvested for food or warmth and thus the hot, dry winds blow the growing soil away…

And this pattern just continues, decade after decade, for at minimum the next hundred years or two even if we could STOP ALL CO2 and METHANE EMISSIONS RIGHT NOW!

And what if we continue to ignore it, as I am doing now, plugged into a copper wire leading straight into my light bulb and computer from a mammoth electricity generating plant, hundreds of miles away, belching CO2 and depositing mercury and coal runoff into the downstream farms, rivers and bays? Well that hellish disruption above was due to a smallish rise in sea level of a foot or two or three. What if it does get much worse? Shall we wait around, noses glued to the LCD/plasma HDTV screen? Wait around to see if it happens, or maybe it won’t? Hmmm… let’s see…

So, fighting climate change is “one of the most important moral issues”?

I think not.

But don’t fret about it, don’t stick your head in the sand,. Rather, act NOW based on precautionary assumptions, to a degree that is as much as you feel you can do, because it is ACTING, rather than ignoring.