Question

Global Environment II: Briefly discuss three key ways in which climate change poses a threat to national security today.  What are some arguments for why the Extinction Rebellion is now necessary?

Answer 1

• Climate change is definitely becoming a threat to national security.Climate change presents two distinct types of threats: direct threats to government military installations and indirect geopolitical and global economic threats.
• With respect to the threat to military installations, there is consensus that climate change is an existing, and escalating, threat to U.S. military readiness, operations, supply chains and infrastructure because of the direct impact of climate change-related weather events on military facilities such as permanent installations in the U.S., bases and facilities abroad and forward-deployed forces.
• Not only are naval bases increasingly threatened by extreme storms and rising sea levels, but other installations are also imperiled by wind, wildfire, drought and erosion related to heavy precipitation events.
• The government recognizes that the effects of climate change—long understood to include changes in precipitation and the hydrological cycle, more intense storm events, increases in the severity and frequency of drought, warmer mean air temperature, rising sea levels and ocean acidification, greater risks of wildfire, changes in plant and animal ranges, and changes in Arctic sea-ice extent and thickness—will have diverse impacts.
• Some of these potential impacts include food crises due to precipitation changes in Central America; saltwater intrusion and flooding leading to increased migration in South Asia; the potential for conflict over increasingly scarce water resources in North Africa; and social and political collapse due to catastrophic storm events.
• Since the Earth's temperature is constantly rising,leading to global warming around the world,the threat to national security is increasing further.The earth is becoming too hot to sustain life,food shortages are happening,droughts are happening in areas,which never happened before,famines,melting of glaciers,forest fires etc. all are posing threat to not just national security but global security as well.
• Due to increase in pollution levels,the airforce is facing visibility issues leading to faults and delays in attacks or even surveying a particular area.The air pollution is also making it diffcult to identify enemy drones in the territory effectively posing further threat.
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