The Patriot Post® · Team Biden Is the Real Existential Threat

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, destabilizing Europe with the threat of nuclear war. China is poised to strike Taiwan, threatening stability in the Pacific as well as vital American supply chains. And Hamas just launched a horrific Iranian-backed assault against Israel that is reverberating throughout the Middle East.

Every one of those things has happened on the sleepy watch of Joe Biden.

Biden has, of course, shown weakness generally (think Afghanistan) and specifically enabled regimes like Iran, leading to inevitable conflict. But he’s also preoccupied with fighting what he considers the real global threat: climate change.

Last year, Biden warned that a warming globe is “literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.” In January, he asserted that climate change poses the “single-most existential threat to humanity we’ve ever faced, including nuclear weapons.” Just last month in Vietnam, Biden opined, “The only existential threat humanity faces, even more frightening than a nuclear war, is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 20 — 10 years.”

John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, confirmed that Islamofascist terror and war in the Middle East haven’t changed Biden’s mind. Asked by Fox News’s Martha McCallum if Biden stands by his climate remarks, Kirby responded: “Absolutely he does. Climate change is an existential threat. It could, you know, it actually threatens and is capable of wiping out all human life on earth, uh, over time. I mean, that’s, I don’t know how much more existential you can get.”

Challenged again, Kirby doubled down: “The president believes wholeheartedly that climate change is an existential threat to all human life on the planet. That’s just science.”

Kirby’s other point, which he reiterated twice, is that focusing on climate “doesn’t mean that we walk away from our obligations, our national security interests in very dangerous parts of the world.”

Fair enough — a presidential administration absolutely should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. But that assumes a president who can actually just walk in the first place.

In all seriousness, the United States is facing a series of serious crises around the world. Perhaps none of them is existential for the U.S., but the only reason Team Biden views climate as existential is because they’re true-believing members of the climate cult. With religious fervor not entirely unlike that of Hamas, they are devoted to … staving off a single degree rise in global temperatures.

Could a 1.5-degree increase wipe out humanity? We’re not convinced. In many ways, in fact, warmer temperatures are a benefit to humanity. Far more people die cold-related deaths than heat-related ones.

In any case, the leftists’ fight just happens to empower them to exercise extensive control over every aspect of our lives in the name of saving our lives. The light bulbs, stoves, HVAC units, and cars we use are just a few examples of the things subject to the dogmatic power-grabbing of this administration. Big Tech’s censorship regime doesn’t allow much debate about the science, either — as if the science on climate is “settled,” or as if it therefore necessitated exactly the Left’s agenda and nothing else or less.

It’s a matter of “existential crisis,” you see, which makes extreme measures necessary. America’s adversaries around the world must be delighted to see Biden so unwilling to deter them because he’d rather tilt at windmills.

Biden and crew are making America far weaker both at home and on the world stage, and it’s by design. Therefore, we must conclude that the real existential threat we face as a nation is the destruction of American Liberty at the hands of the Marxist cultists typified by the Biden administration. That Marxist cult involves not only climate but race and gender as well.

Climate fighting could destroy our economy. Race-baiting is meant to undermine our culture. Gender-bending is intended to destroy the family and thus society itself.

To borrow Kirby’s phrase, we “don’t know how much more existential you can get.”