Posted on 01/10/2018 10:31:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The precise extent of human-induced climate change is unclear, but the basic science is unequivocal, as is the danger it poses to the United States. This threat comes from the direct impact of climate change on agricultural production and sea levels but equally importantly from the huge waves of migration that climate change is likely to cause, on a scale that even the world’s richest states and societies will be unable either to prevent or accommodate.
Yet for two out of the past four U.S. administrations, action on this issue has been frozen due to the refusal of a large section of the political establishment and electorate to accept the clear scientific evidence that this threat exists.
The most urgent and important task facing climate change activists in the United States is to persuade the U.S. national security establishment of the mistakenness of this decision. If no serious progress can be made under this administration, then concentrated thought must be dedicated to placing climate change at the heart of the next administration’s NSS and of U.S. security thinking in general.
This is because the most promising avenue to convince conservative American voters and to generate genuinely serious action in the United States against climate change would be to firmly establish the link between global warming and critical issues of national security.
The military can play a key part in mobilizing these feelings and turning this struggle into one that unites Americans and reduces the divisions and hatred that are beginning to pose a threat not only to the working of the U.S. political system but even the long-term survival of U.S. democracy. Without this engagement, successful action against climate change will be impossible, and the consequences for the United States and the world will be disastrous.
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Peter Paul Anatol Lieven is a British author, Orwell Prize-winning journalist, and policy analyst. He is a Senior Researcher (Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow) at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
It’s almost like we live in a competitive world and these foreigners want to screw our country up so they can sell more of their crap.
I am not sending my kids to go off and fight in some foreign...Uhm... climates?
Can the US Army control the Sun? Wow.
I’ll be part of that migration when the glaciation begins....
Mobilizing feelings a new job for the military.
The first sentence was enough. What drivel!
Give me 10 min in the room with this nutcase and I’d have him crying.
His logic has so many flaws, he couldn’t find any job in the private sector other than flipping burgers.
What he appears to be asking for, is for military commanders to order their subordinates to propagandize about "climate change" to all their civilian relatives and friends. Am I reading this right? Is there an alternate interpretation of what he's asking for?
“Give me 10 min in the room with this nutcase “
Sorry man, I’ll take the lead. This idiot just needs a lead pipe to the noggin.
Other than the cosmetic impacts (litter is ugly, factories and high farms smell bad, etc.) pollution has almost no economic impact. Environmental laws are based on appeasing the tender emotions of liberal snowflakes. Sure, we should have laws against littering. And maybe site selection for smelly businesses should favor areas far from residential communities. But beyond that, ALL of the environmentalist crap is total nonsense that costs billions of dollars and millions of jobs.
I categorically reject this statement as an outright lie.
How appropriate!
I disagree. Many of the harmful/toxic components of industrial waste are difficult and quite expensive to remove from [drinking] water. The most economical option is to not discharge them in to our streams, rivers, lakes and oceans in the first place.
Ha! Just read the 2010 and 2015 National Security Strategies. The forced link is laughable and really sticks out like a sore thumb.
This guy is rallying for pure propaganda.
Can the US Army control the Sun? Wow.
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Yes they can by the reflections from their pink high heels and twirling tutus. And, mind you, all that while studying lactation and handicapped by wearing pregnancy simulators ... Those bi guys are really trained up! Now when the tranny Ranger squads made up of over 34 year old mothers begins to do their stuff watch that evil CO2 just run for cover!
If the sea level rises,
the Army Corps of Engineers can save a lot of money
because they won’t have to dredge all of the
commercial waterways as deep or as often.
My God, what an idiot. This guy actually got this published?
If he is worried about the dangers of immigration, I suggest he look at the hijrah into Europe which is destroying Europe as he breathes (also hijrah into the US as a means to destroy us, too). This is a real and FAR greater Andy more immediate danger.
Closer to home, if he wants us to worry about mass migration, we should repeal the 1965 immigration act and shut down immigration for a decade or two. Over 20% of our population is foreign-born, an historical high, and many have zero intention of jumping into the melting pot.
Lastly, you could spend the entire world’s GDP trying to stop climate change and it would have no effect.
“that climate change is likely to cause, on a scale that even the world’s richest states and societies will be unable either to prevent or accommodate”
“Unable” to prevent or accommodate? Says who?
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