Climate change is a threat to anyone living on the planet earth. Even if the area you live in is faring better than others, you will feel the impacts of climate change in your ability to receive the resources you take for granted, and if you are in an especially “unaffected” area, you will probably begin seeing a lot more people moving in. National security is not as simple as having more guns than everyone else, it’s a matter of having a strategy to deal with food shortages, huge population upheavals, emergency plans for natural disasters, and updated infrastructure in order to best prepare us for inevitable issues that may come down the pike sooner rather than later. To that end 95 Democratic Congress folks and 11 Republican ones signed off on a letter Thursday, urging the president to reconsider the idiotic position of taking climate change out of our National Security Strategy.
Dear Mr. President:
As Members of the House of Representatives with a deep interest in the many dimensions of our national security, we write to express our concern regarding your recent National Security Strategy, which fails to recognize climate change as a threat to the United States.
We have heard from scientists, military leaders, and civilian personnel who believe that climate change is indeed a: direct threat to America's national security and to the stability of the world at large. As global temperatures become more volatile, sea levels rise, and landscapes change, our military installations and our communities are increasingly at risk of devastation. It is imperative that the United States addresses this growing geopolitical threat.
Secretary of Defense Mattis has stated that "the effects of a changing climate ... will impact our security situation." Congress affirmed that climate change is "a direct threat to the national security of the United States" in the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act that you signed into law on December 12, 2017. Failing to recognize this threat in your National Security Strategy represents a significant step backwards on this issue and discredits those who deal in scientific fact.
We urge you to reconsider this omission. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
As Inside Climate News explains, Trump and his crew of idiots decided to leave off climate change from the list of “top strategic risks,” in the updated National Security Strategy.
Omitting climate change from the National Security Strategy won't prohibit the Department of Defense from continuing to act on climate change—the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, passed by Congress and signed by Trump in December, explicitly recognizes climate change as a national security threat. But the lawmakers' response to the administration's strategy stands out, climate and national security experts say.
"The center has moved in Congress," said John Conger, a senior policy advisor at the Center for Climate and Security, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., and former Department of Defense official in the Obama administration. Congress "is sending a message to the administration that, on a bipartisan basis, they think that the national security apparatus must take climate change into account."
That’s a nice thing to say, but the “center” has not changed. People with half-a-brain understand that a changing climate is a national security risk. Even if you are a complete imbecile and don’t believe climate change has been impacted greatly by manmade pollution, you know that the climate is changing, and that will have a profound effect on, you know, all of us. There is no conversation to have with someone who wants to use climate change as a political football. That conversation is over.