It's no joke - it's the greatest and most urgent, pressing threat to our very safety.
Along with income inequality, it's actually the documented cause of terrorism - not radical, warped ideologies. If only those upper middle class and wealthy, university educated, radical jihadists had better jobs and didn't have to put up with climate change caused by fossil fuels, they'd start letting women drive and vote, and stop blowing stuff up and killing westerners, homosexuals, and women who "committed adultery" by getting themselves raped.