Thus The Guardian today in an editorial on fighting terror. “Choking the flow of European recruits requires us to understand and work against the glamorous lies that make it attractive,” explains the newspaper. The attraction of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria needs to be countered with something, to be sure, for it is getting the better of untold youths across the subcontinent. Both young men and women are at stake. According to the editorial, some of the current attractions are common to all wars. Many of the adolescents long for a purging and ennobling catastrophe, the argument goes. Indeed. And this has been so throughout human history. But this is where the argument ends, too. How can “we” win anything with such a limp editorial, though? Although this particular newspaper is gung-ho on climate change, it misses the one and only opportunity on offer: the climate change war. There are thousands of things the European youth can do while there is still time to do it. Build dams, for instance. Relocate communities. Reforest mountains. But all this will require organization very like that of the military. And a very similar culture. Bingo! Even ISIS would soon start mimicking the effort, for climate change threatens the Middle East, and mightily.