Tuesday, October 14, 2014

What Happened To Adapt And Overcome?

For fucks sake I am getting tired of this bullshit already.


Pentagon calls climate change a matter of ‘national security’


 

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday described climate change as a national security threat -- at a time when the U.S. military is battling the Islamic State in the Mideast, responding to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, and monitoring tensions between Ukraine and Russia.
The Defense secretary addressed the issue during a speech in Peru, as the Pentagon released a comprehensive report on the "national security" challenges posed by rising global temperatures and "extreme weather events."
Hagel described climate change as a "threat multiplier," saying it "has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we already confront today -- from infectious disease to armed insurgencies -- and to produce new challenges in the future."
The Pentagon's new report maps out four areas of climate change deemed the most threatening to the U.S. military -- rising global temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, more extreme weather and rising sea levels. And it warns about the impact they could have on food and water supplies, the environment and American security itself.
"Our militaries' readiness could be tested, and our capabilities could be stressed," Hagel said, addressing a conference of military leaders.

 



I think if I was a Canadian I would start worrying about now.

These hegemonic fuckers would have no problem moving the border North if they thought they could get away with it, tomorrow.




1 comment:

stevierayv said...

Great another unwinnable war you'd think we'd rethink declaring war on shit idiots with other peoples money

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