{"id":16958,"date":"2014-05-18T17:31:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T17:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/climate-change-deemed-growing-security-threat-by\/"},"modified":"2014-05-18T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T17:31:27","slug":"climate-change-deemed-growing-security-threat-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/climate-change-deemed-growing-security-threat-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"

technoccult<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Klint Finley<\/p>\n

The New York Times reports:<\/p>\n

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The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded.<\/p>\n

The CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board found that climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa is leading to conflicts over food and water and escalating longstanding regional and ethnic tensions into violent clashes. The report also found that rising sea levels are putting people and food supplies in vulnerable coastal regions like eastern India, Bangladesh and the Mekong Delta in Vietnam at risk and could lead to a new wave of refugees.<\/p>\n

In addition, the report predicted that an increase in catastrophic weather events around the world will create more demand for American troops, even as flooding and extreme weather events at home could damage naval ports and military bases.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Full Story:<\/strong> The New York Times: Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers<\/a><\/p>\n

See also: Pentagon Bracing for Public Dissent Over Climate and Energy Shocks<\/a><\/p>\n

Reminds me that Bruce Sterling wrote in 2009<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If I wanted to be politically effective, rather than visionary, I\u2019d disguise myself as a right-wing Green, probably some kind of hunting-shooting NASCAR \u201cconservationist,\u201d and I\u2019d infiltrate the Republicans this year. [\u2026]<\/p>\n

So we publicly recognize the climate crisis: just as if we suddenly discovered it ourselves. And we don\u2019t downplay the climate crisis: we OVERPLAY the crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we blame the crisis on foreigners. We\u2019re not liberal weak sisters \u2018negotiating Kyoto agreements.\u2019 We\u2019re assembling a Coalition of the Willing tp threaten polluters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re certainly not bowing the knee to the damn Chinese \u2014 they own our Treasury, unfortunately, but we completely change the terms of that debate. When the Chinese open a coal mine and threaten the world\u2019s children with asthma, we will take out that threat with a cruise missile!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s our new negotiating position on the climate crisis: we\u2019re the military, macho hard line.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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