Posted on 02/27/2020 9:34:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Climate change activism in popular culture may be associated with woke millennials and graying hippies, but some of the most dire warnings about global warming are coming today from national security professionals.
As the Trump administration has downplayed climate change as a national priority, it has increasingly fallen to members of the military and intelligence establishment to argue to keep focus and resources on climate change. On the whole, they treat global warming not as an environmental phenomenon or a moral imperative, but, rather as a force capable of altering the nation’s security outlook.
The calculus is, as it happens, more like simple math. “They see climate change as an impediment on their ability to fight future wars,” explains Michael Klare, author of the new book “All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change.” Klare says that bases in the North and South Pacific prone to flooding, and missile interceptors in Alaska are in danger from melting permafrost, and the U.S. could be hampered in potential conflict with Russia and China. “Their capacity to wage war is being degraded by climate change.”
That much is clear in a series of dire scenarios outlined in a new report by the Center for Climate and Security, a nonpartisan Washington think tank that considers global warming from a national security perspective. It depicts a volatile world where water-hoarding warlords and border-closing nationalists upend long-established security arrangements, plunging the world into chaos.
The report places the Pentagon squarely in the global warming fight. That fight has been largely abandoned by agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, where political appointees with backgrounds in the oil and gas industries have roundly rejected the scientific consensus on climate change.
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"Stop me if you've heard this before."
No wonder lefties are so miserable. They buy every bit of this garbage.
It was written by The Center for Climate and Security. What else are they going to write about to justify their salaries. If no Climate change then no wages. BTW, who finances the Center for Climate and Security? I bet just a bunch of humanitarians!!!! Scoffffff. These are corporations pushing green military gear. Just stupid beyond belief.
someone pointed out to me that with China’s quarantine and travel restrictions, its traffic deaths have declined from the normal 700-800 each day to a few dozen.
In China, about 2715 total have died of the virus.
So in fact, the coronavirus is SAVING lives in China.
Lukas Haynes is a member of the Center for Climate and Security Advisory Board, and Executive Director of the David Rockefeller Fund. Previously, he was Vice President of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation where he was responsible since 2006 for a philanthropic strategy to mitigate the risks of global warming, invest in low-income New York City communities, and protect human rights. He is also an adjunct associate professor of global affairs and philanthropy at New York University. He was previously New York director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and program officer for international peace and security. Read more… This tells you all you need to know about the group.
A catustrofee!
A criseez!
Don’t leave out Pandelerium!
It’s all cause of the Covfefe-19 virus!
So says “Michael Klare”
Who?
Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies, whose department is located at Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts, USA), defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and author of Resource Wars and Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan). Klare also teaches at Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Klare serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. He is a regular contributor to many publications including The Nation, TomDispatch and Mother Jones, and is a frequent columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus. He also was the narrator of the movie Blood and Oil, which was produced by the Media Education Foundation.
He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Yep, absolutely no bias there
Trump is President, so the Earth is under constant threat from global catastrophe. We get it.
LOL!
This is all happening below the global elevator
Our military is prepared to fight in every clime and
place on earth, maybe the Moon and Mars too.
LOL
Soooo.....hasn’t the US drastically reduced carbon dioxide emissions over the last couple of decades?.....note to doom and gloomers...we all are going to die....our biggest threat is the demonrats.....
“We’re all gonna die from sumthin’”
Joycelyn Elders
Ha Ha. I major source of funding for these clowns is The David Rockefeller Fund. Just a bunch of globalist clowns making themselves comfy useless jobs off trust fund idiots.
This is getting really annoying. Trump should just fire anyone in his administration who spews this crap.
Sadly, the FReepers trying to push COVID-19 as a worlwide calamity, sound just as unhinged as the nuts on the Left trying to push Globull Warming! Both groups use a similar approach (warning of Doom and Gloom and Pestilence for those who rightly doubt the claims)!
So how many years do we have left? 12?, 10?, 5?, less than 1? OMG I need to know so I know when to take off all my cloths and run naked in the streets. Seriously, why worry about it? Everyone is going to die and if like me you have been saved by the one and only god Jesus death is a joyous occasion. But if you are a liberal, a democrat, or even worse the current Pope I can understand your desire to put it off as long as possible.
If we can’t adapt militarily to whatever happens in the future then I think we deserve to get our ass kicked. We lose bases all the time due to shifting alliances and politics in other countries. If we can’t have an island that is why we have aircraft carriers. If permafrost melts does that mean Russia’s tanks will work and ours won’t? Last resort we have nukes in submarines that are already under water. And I am not even a defense expert. Paying people to whine about unknown futures is a terrible waste.
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