#climate security

“A Climate Security Plan for America” is a report prepared by the Climate and Security Advisory Group, consisting of sixty-four senior U.S. military, national security and intelligence leaders, including a former director of NASA. Here’s a link to the report, if you want to read it. The press has ignored it, just as the press ignored a report released back in August from the United States Army War College. You’d think the press should be interested in reporting on climate change from the perspective of our military and intelligence officials. But I guess not.

Excerpt from this story from Nation of Change:

Though the subtitle to the document is ‘A Presidential plan for combating the security risks of climate change’, considering that the country’s current president and the party he represents are unapologetic in denying the science at the heart of the issue, it’s less surprising that it’s warnings have fallen on deaf ears in the White House.

The plan, first made public on September 24th, has “four pillars of action” that also act as chapter headings for the text; they are, 1) for the United States to demonstrate leadership on climate change and associated issues, 2) assess the risks involved, 3) support allies in addressing it and 4) to prepare for and, where possible, prevent, the likely impacts of it.

As the authors of the report explain at the beginning of the text, “The plan should incorporate the philosophy that the unprecedented risks of climate change coupled with unprecedented foresight underline a responsibility to prepare for unavoidable climate security risks and to prevent unacceptable climate security risks in the future.”

This article from Yale Climate Connections includes links to 12 reports relative to various aspects of climate change. Some of them, maybe all of them, are wonky, and maybe really dense. But, if you’re interested, go for it. Excerpt from this article:

Over the last several weeks, Americans have witnessed a remarkable burst of climate activism and communication. In two townhalls, Democratic candidates for president offered their plans for addressing climate change. Students and concerned citizens participated in climate strikes organized in cities across the nation and around the world. And Covering Climate Now, a consortium of more than 300 media outlets, gave climate change an unprecedented level of coverage for two weeks in September.

Over the same time period, many governmental agencies and nongovernmental organizations released major new reports, underlining the urgency of meeting the challenge of climate change and offering recommendations for ways to meet that challenge. This month’s bookshelf highlights 24 reports, including twelve that have been published since July. The first set of 12 was posted last week. The second set of 12 is listed below.

The descriptions of these reports are drawn from copy provided by the organizations that released them. A link for the free PDF version of the report is included with each entry.

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❝ Following climate change activist Greta Thunberg’s scathing address to world leaders at the United Nations on Monday, former top military officials have called for President Donald Trump to treat the issue as a major national security threat.

Sixty-four former senior military and intelligence leaders have endorsed the Climate Security Plan for Americaissued on Tuesday by the Center for Climate…

War and the Environment | No War 2017: David Swanson, Jill Stein, Tim DeChristopher, Conference Opening (Video)

First in a series of videos that Rise Up Times is posting from the No War 2017: War and the Environment   Just following the International Day of Peace, and in the tradition of No War 2016: Real Security Without Terrorism, and the best speech any U.S. president ever gave, this year’s conference focused on activism, including activist planning workshops, addressing how the antiwar and…