By Mike Cunningham

American media mogul and philanthropist, Ted Turner thinks that climate change is “probably the most serious, and in all fairness, the most complex problem humanity that has ever faced.”

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of historic and current problems that most would consider worse than climate change:

·       Diseases (Cancer, AIDS, Malaria, Small Pox, the Bubonic Plague, etc.)

·       World War I and II (Hitler and Stalin)

·       The Holocaust

·       Genocide

·       Communism (which killed 100 million people)

·       World hunger

·       World poverty

·       Slavery

·       Tyranny

·       Religious persecution

·       Abortion

·       Terrorism

 Mike Cunningham is a Sarah T. Hermann Intern Scholar at Young America’s Foundation.