Climate Change: The Security Threat

9:14 pm EST August 8th, 2009 | News | 16 Comments

But we should totally give in to oil company propaganda and the blogs they send on junkets (*cough* QandO *cough*).

Recent war games and intelligence studies conclude that over the next 20 to 30 years, vulnerable regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, will face the prospect of food shortages, water crises and catastrophic flooding driven by climate change that could demand an American humanitarian relief or military response.

An exercise at the National Defense University, an educational institute overseen by the military, last December explored the potential impact of a flood in Bangladesh that sent hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming into neighboring India, touching off religious conflict, the spread of contagious diseases and vast damage to infrastructure.

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16 Responses to “Climate Change: The Security Threat”

  1. Gabriel McKee says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    No coverage of the black conservative who was beaten up by lefties? How honest.

  2. abanterer says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    “WAH! Oliver Willis, who’s blog I troll,will not blog on something that I’m not even covering on my blog! DoublePlusUnGood!”

  3. abanterer says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    HAH! There, he just posted something. Go forth, young troll!

  4. abanterer says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    And this is an interesting article, OW. But, I think this would require an international effort, and not just an American one, though a goodwill tour or four wouldn’t hurt. The repeated cry of ‘No Foreign Aid!” from the neo-con crowd has done more harm than it did good, for the easy good will pick up we could catch by responding to international crises.

  5. Gabriel McKee says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:38 pm

    How do you lefties plan on controlling the environment (ha!!!) without the cooperation of India and China?

  6. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    How do you lefties plan on controlling the environment (ha!!!) without the cooperation of India and China?

    What do you think? Should we bomb them until they do what we want?

  7. Gabriel McKee says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    Nah, I’m generally against the whole bombing deal…..

    There’s no way to get them to cooperate…And they wont, regardless.

  8. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    There’s no way to get them to cooperate

    I see. Can we put you down as a member of the “we’re-all-going-to-die-but-at-least-we’ll-be-rich” camp?

  9. Oliver Willis says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    Conservatives who attack international cooperation and pan the UN suddenly think we shouldn’t go ahead with any sort of plan because China and India aren’t on board at the outset.

    Talk about a global test.

  10. Gabriel McKee says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    “Conservatives who attack international cooperation and pan the UN suddenly think we shouldn’t go ahead with any sort of plan because China and India aren’t on board at the outset.

    Talk about a global test.”

    Yeah, we should totally hamper our economy to do something that won’t have any benefit whatsoever to pacify the environmental loons. Real smart.

    And yes, the U.N. is a giant waste.

  11. Gabriel McKee says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    “I see. Can we put you down as a member of the “we’re-all-going-to-die-but-at-least-we’ll-be-rich” camp?”

    First of all, there’s been minimal warming, second of all, we’re “we’re all not going to die”…at least not from some overblown environmental catastrophe.

  12. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 8, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    First of all, there’s been minimal warming, second of all, we’re “we’re all not going to die”…at least not from some overblown environmental catastrophe.

    Are we finally turning to the subject of Oliver’s post? Good.

    Perhaps you could take the trouble to explain where you think the National Defense University has gone awry.

  13. abanterer says:
    August 8, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    Because Jimmy Inhofe says so, Quaker.

    But I like that international negotiations will automatically fail.

    “If the inscrutable men of the Orient won’t kiss our ass at the snap of a finger, it means they won’t do it. Why do we even send diplomats? Best to do nothing, and hope the majority of the planet’s scientists will be wrong, just like that time they claimed the Earth is billions of years old!”

  14. jr says:
    August 9, 2009 at 3:07 am

    Cons hate science from Ben Stein to blog trolls

  15. durablend says:
    August 9, 2009 at 6:40 am

    Oh for crissakes people…everyone knows since the Earth is flat the flood waters will just pour off the edge (out into space).

  16. Burn says:
    August 9, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    Well global warming doesn’t exist, because talk radio show hosts and dead science fiction authors say so. what more do you need?