Peace, Conflict, National Security, Climate Change

PEACE, CONFLICT, NATIONAL SECURITY, CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change action - that is mitigation of climate change and global warming - is directly tied to the maintenance of peace. In the absence of substantial mitigating action, climate change is expected to lead increasingly to severe food and water shortages in many areas, in addition to coastal flooding, eventually leading to mass migrations and increased conflicts worldwide. That is, unchecked global warming will increasingly lead to the breakdown of peace, and threats to national and international security.

See HERE for a 2015 report on climate change and national security from the U.S. Defense Department, which says: The US Department of Defense "recognizes the reality of climate change and the significant risk it poses to U.S. interests globally. The National Security Strategy, issued in February 2015, is clear that climate change is an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources such as food and water. These impacts are already occurring, and the scope, scale, and intensity of these impacts are projected to increase over time."

Click below for more: 

• Department of Defense Acknowledges Risks of Climate Change

• An excellent overview: Urgency and Action; Mitigating Climate Change: A report prepared by the Environmental Working Group of Florida Veterans for Common Sense, 2017

• Unchecked climate change is expected to produce mass migrations of millions of people and increasing armed conflict, see HERE.

• It is thought that the Darfur conflict was partly caused by the drying up of water supplies, see HERE.

• HERE is a report of the talk on climate and national security given by Rear Admiral Titley, former head of the Navy's Task Force on Climate Change, at the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

• HERE is another presentation by Rear Admiral Titley

• HERE is a presentation "Climate Change and (Inter)National Security" made to the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security by Dr. Jan Dash

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Watch this one-minute VIDEO from VoteVets.org. Brigadier General Steven Anderson (Ret.) backs clean energy legislation, saying it is not just a military mission, it's an American mission.

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Potential Nuclear Conflict and Climate Change

• CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE RISK OF NUCLEAR WAR (Article by Guy Quinlan)

• Kashmir, climate change, and nuclear war (Bulletin Atomic Scientists, Dec 2016)

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Last edit 27Jan2017