No Security Without Climate Security
Global Voices
By Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO, Think Tank New America: The Biden administration must make preparing for the direct impact of global warming a much higher priority.
Climate change poses an existential threat to the US, then the US defence apparatus must participate in the fight against it. Under Burns’s leadership, the CIA has established a mission focused on helping “policymakers in the US government understand the consequences of climate change in already fragile societies.” The National Security Council, the State Department, and the Pentagon all have units that focus on climate-change-related conflicts abroad. Still, what about the direct impact of climate change on the US? Generals, after all, do not stop fighting wars when the fighting spreads from foreign to American soil.
No Security Without Climate Security
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