{"id":60888,"date":"2021-12-11T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60888"},"modified":"2021-12-11T07:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T12:10:49","slug":"now-the-pentagon-tells-bush-climate-change-will-destroy-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60888","title":{"rendered":"Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dcr-1nupfq9\" data-gu-name=\"headline\">\n<div class=\"dcr-krkkhw\">\n<div class=\"dcr-13a2edo\">\n<h3 class=\"dcr-125vfar\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2004\/feb\/22\/usnews.theobserver\">Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-zjgnrw\" data-gu-name=\"standfirst\">\n<div class=\" dcr-oo100f\" data-print-layout=\"hide\">\n<p><strong>\u00b7<\/strong>\u00a0Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war<br \/>\n<strong>\u00b7<\/strong>\u00a0Britain will be \u2018Siberian\u2019 in less than 20 years<br \/>\n<strong>\u00b7<\/strong>\u00a0Threat to the world is greater than terrorism<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-pn0kqp\" data-gu-name=\"media\">\n<div class=\"dcr-krkkhw\">\n<div class=\"dcr-16n5mgq\">\n<figure id=\"1aa23580-ea57-435e-9fe4-645d4dadd6c9\" class=\"dcr-13udsys\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1b267dg\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/679d550243d4253f4c2f2108a26be2508630706d\/0_140_3736_2242\/master\/3736.jpg?width=620&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=462547e17693f84fe193887b72d7b7fd 1240w\" media=\"(min-width: 980px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 980px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source 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srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/679d550243d4253f4c2f2108a26be2508630706d\/0_140_3736_2242\/master\/3736.jpg?width=465&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1ae3af91987510e91cf4de9335d890dc 465w\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/679d550243d4253f4c2f2108a26be2508630706d\/0_140_3736_2242\/master\/3736.jpg?width=465&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=2f88ae3f49f50ed692fc732b17bf4154\" alt=\"Pentagon outside Washington, DC (Photo by SAUL LOEB \/ AFP)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"dcr-w6u133\"><span class=\"dcr-19x4pdv\">Pentagon outside Washington, DC (Photo by SAUL LOEB \/ AFP)<\/span> Photograph: Saul Loeb\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"dcr-1aul2ye\" data-gu-name=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"dcr-krkkhw\">\n<div class=\" dcr-ss9mnu\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1eucl2a\">\n<div class=\"dcr-fj5ypv\">\n<div>\n<address aria-label=\"Contributor info\" data-component=\"meta-byline\" data-link-name=\"byline\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"dcr-185kcx9\" data-gu-name=\"body\">\n<div class=\"dcr-klxumw\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-j7ihvk\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector  dcr-ucgxn1\">\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2004\/feb\/22\/usnews.theobserver1?CMP=share_btn_link\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">secret report<\/a>, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a \u2018Siberian\u2019 climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">\u2018Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,\u2019 concludes the Pentagon analysis. \u2018Once again, warfare would define human life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted national defence is a priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">The report was commissioned by influential Pentagon defence adviser Andrew Marshall, who has held considerable sway on US military thinking over the past three decades. He was the man behind a sweeping recent review aimed at transforming the American military under Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-o5gy41\">Climate change \u2018should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-national-security\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">US national security<\/a>\u00a0concern\u2019, say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch\/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us \u00b7\u00a0Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war \u00b7\u00a0Britain will be \u2018Siberian\u2019 in less than 20 years \u00b7\u00a0Threat to the world is greater than terrorism Pentagon outside Washington, DC (Photo by SAUL LOEB \/ AFP) Photograph: Saul Loeb\/AFP\/Getty Images \u00a0 Climate change over the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,32282,32283,6917,11226],"class_list":["post-60888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-mark-townsend","tag-paul-harris","tag-the-guardian","tag-us-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60889,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60888\/revisions\/60889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}