{"id":49145,"date":"2019-10-25T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49145"},"modified":"2019-10-25T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:45:55","slug":"dire-climate-change-warning-in-report-for-pentagon-us-military-could-collapse-in-20-years-lack-of-water-domestic-disasters-disease-mass-migrations-as-threats-to-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49145","title":{"rendered":"Dire Climate Change Warning in Report for Pentagon: US Military Could Collapse in 20 Years; Lack of Water, Domestic Disasters, Disease, Mass Migrations as Threats to Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dire Climate Change Warning in Report for Pentagon: US Military Could Collapse in 20 Years; Lack of Water, Domestic Disasters, Disease, Mass Migrations as Threats to Operations<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Pentagon has long been concerned about the threats climate change pose to stability and how it will lead to conflicts due to mass migration and even more intense competition for scarce resources. In the early 2000s, the military warned that climate change could induce large-scale deaths and migrations out of low-lying areas such as Bangladesh due to storms and flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent look at the dangers climate change poses to US military operations, released over the summer by the Army War College<\/a>, went virtually unnoticed despite offering \u201cApocalypse Near\u201d scenarios a mere 20 years out.  And it isn\u2019t  just that very bad things are in the offing; the report finds that \u201cthe Department of Defense (DoD) is precariously unprepared for the national security implications of climate change-induced global security challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We found out about this document only as a result of an article in Vice flagged by resilc. We\u2019ve embedded the document at the end of the post and strongly urge you to read it in full. Or if you want Cliff Notes versions, see The Center for Climate and Security<\/a> or the Vice piece<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report sees the lack of potable water as a serious limitation on US military operations, which it anticipates will be overtaxed due to destabilizing climate-change induced mass migrations abroad, combined with domestic Jackpot-level threats of an overtaxed, decrepit electrical grid; diseases; and drought and potential crop failures. Vice gives a good high-level recap<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report paints a frightening portrait of a country falling apart over the next 20 years due to the impacts of climate change on \u201cnatural systems such as oceans, lakes, rivers, ground water, reefs, and forests.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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