The big problem here isn't climate change for the Colson Center.

I'm John Stone Street with the point.

In a recent interview, former Secretary of State John Kerry lamented that the war in Ukraine

would cost human lives and disrupt the principles of international law.

And then the President's special envoy on climate change expressed another concern, carbon emissions.

You're going to lose people's focus on climate change, he told reporters, their attention

will be diverted.

To highlight the greenhouse emissions of a war, which is actively claiming thousands of lives,

is tone deaf at best and backward logic at worse.

It's not to say people shouldn't care about the climate, we should.

It's not to say war doesn't have a horrible impact on the environment.

It does. But this is just a worldview incapable of dealing with real human evil. It's human cost,

and the real motivation behind it. The former Secretary of State later expressed hope that

melting ice would make Vladimir Putin rethink his war and help the world stay on track

with what we need to do for the climate. If only if it were that easy, the people digging themselves out of the rubble and

Kiev or Mirapole might have a different opinion.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.