It’s Blog Action Day 2009, a day when the bloggers unite online for a cause.  It’s sort of like USA for Africa’s “We are the World,” except with 50% less singing, 100% more typing, and 23% more Hall and Oates (at least in my case).  This year, the cause is climate change, which makes Blog Action Day sort of like “blogosphere for the atmosphere.”

The topic got me thinking to 2003 when the Pentagon was asked what they thought was the biggest threat to national security. The Pentagon didn’t say terrorism.  They didn’t say banking, national health care or reality shows

They said climate change.

That’s right.  The Pentagon, still recovering after 9/11, in a time when the correct answer to any question was global terrorism, said the greatest risk to U.S. national security was climate change.

Not because we would get a little hot, or that Al Gore would win the Nobel Peace Prize, but because climate change would lead to world-wide hunger, food insecurity and famine, which would foment political instability and war.

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Mike Wolf brings us along for his weekly ritual – Sundays at JFS/SOVA. Mike and other volunteers collect, pack, and distribute food to families and individuals who don’t get enough to eat.

JFS/SOVA is a nonsectarian program of Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in the community. The majority of JFS/SOVA clients have stable housing, but their monthly incomes are insufficient to meet their own and/or their family’s needs. JFS/SOVA pantries assist an average of 7,000 people each month.

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