Climate and Security
A few people have figured out that climate change poses global security threats.
Let me expand on this a little. Areas that are currently hot will become uninhabitable imminently. That includes large swaths of Africa and India in particular, where some of the worst heatwaves have already hit, but everywhere in the tropical zone should be considered high-risk for environmental foreclosure. That is a LOT of countries. The subtropical ones will go next.
As people flee toward the poles, the temperate and subpolar countries will face mounting pressure. We probably could cram everyone into safe places if we worked together, but people are already resisting the northward flow. It's not going to be much longer before they simply start shooting everything that moves near their borders. Ironically, places like Greece that are currently fending off African and Middle Eastern refugees will find themselves trying to crawl into their northern neighbors, probably with the same aggressive results.
Climate change is the worst security threat the world has faced since the atomic bomb, and it's more dangerous because we can't disarm it.
Let me expand on this a little. Areas that are currently hot will become uninhabitable imminently. That includes large swaths of Africa and India in particular, where some of the worst heatwaves have already hit, but everywhere in the tropical zone should be considered high-risk for environmental foreclosure. That is a LOT of countries. The subtropical ones will go next.
As people flee toward the poles, the temperate and subpolar countries will face mounting pressure. We probably could cram everyone into safe places if we worked together, but people are already resisting the northward flow. It's not going to be much longer before they simply start shooting everything that moves near their borders. Ironically, places like Greece that are currently fending off African and Middle Eastern refugees will find themselves trying to crawl into their northern neighbors, probably with the same aggressive results.
Climate change is the worst security threat the world has faced since the atomic bomb, and it's more dangerous because we can't disarm it.