Fareed Zakaria nails the climate change, entitlement spending asteroid connection: They’re both about our preference for instant gratification.
Highly recommended:
In Tallahassee, we’re doing a program on both of these asteroids on January 14th. We’re calling it FEARS: Where not everybody feels your pain… “What if manmade climate change is real and the social welfare state is doomed? (We might just need a beer.)” We’re having the conversation at a bar on a stage.