Terrorism and Sustainability

Given the Heathrow’s liquid bomb threat last week, here is an interesting blog on World Changing about “Why sustainability, not terrorism, should be the security focus”. In his post, Steffen argued that the climate crisis and environmental degradation we are facing is by far a much large threat to us than the occasional terrorist plots… It sounds right, but I am wondering, why we choose or allow these supposedly ineffective wars on terror that there are very few convincing evident that we are in a more secure and safer place than 5 years ago. Is it because it is easier to “fight” terror with a very clear target and we are the good guys and they are the bad guys? Is it because terrorism deals with fear, not necessarily fact or evidence? Or is it because there are no obvious evils in sustainability? Because we are all kind of guilty?