U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned

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U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says

The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.

By Nafeez Ahmed

25 October 2019, 1:30am

This article originally appeared on VICE US.

https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/mbmkz8/us-military-could-collapse-within-20-years-due-to-climate-change-report-commissioned-by-pentagon-says?utm_source=reddit.com

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According to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen over the next two decades, the report notes.

The senior US government officials who wrote the report are from several key agencies including the Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NASA. The study called on the Pentagon to urgently prepare for the possibility that domestic power, water, and food systems might collapse due to the impacts of climate change as we near mid-century.

The report was commissioned by General Mark Milley, Trump's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the highest-ranking military officer in the country (the report also puts him at odds with Trump, who does not take climate change seriously.)

The report, titled Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army, was launched by the U.S. Army War College in partnership with NASA in May at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. The report was commissioned by Gen. Milley during his previous role as the Army’s Chief of Staff. It was made publicly available in August via the Center for Climate and Security, but didn't get a lot of attention at the time.

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1. Is that why the right never does infrastructure spending and blocked Obama?

Because we don't know how the climate change will affect the geography of the nation?

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2. within the next 20 years

This is scary. veryscary



......The two most prominent scenarios in the report focus on the risk of a collapse of the power grid within “the next 20 years,” and the danger of disease epidemics. Both could be triggered by climate change in the near-term, it notes.

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5. Yes. A narrow focus on fallout to the military. I want my granny x back.

She ran a farm herself and took all live-off-the-land knowledge with her when she passed away. She was born in 1898.

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4. Climate change will destroy the planet eventuslly...

I will be 87 in 20 years, God willing. I will see what this will do to my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

They have the good sense to do their parts.

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6. In 2004, they said it would happen by 2020

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

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7. Would you buy a beechfront property that was at sealevel or only 2 feet above?

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9. Is it proven that the Obamas bought it?

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8. Months to go--"European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a

'Siberian' climate by 2020"

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10. That was only one report commissioned by a guy who

Was big on military spending. Respected Scientists in 2004 were not “predicting European cities under water and Britain plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020”.

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11. And you think they were wrong?

The war in Syria was caused in large part by the worst drought in 1000 yr, causing the largest refugee wave since WW2.

The US alone has seen trillions of dollars in storm and fire damage in the past 15 years.

California is currently resorting to rolling blackouts to stave off more wildfires.

We've got immigrants streaming north (and a president talking about diverting funds from the military to a border wall) because their farms are dying of drought in Central America.

Australia's largest river basin has run dry, threatening ng the nation's agricultural and ecological future.

Brazil's rainforests are approaching a tipping point from which they dry out and collapse to savanna due to clearing and burning

You DON'T think these clear warning signs of catastrophic damage starting to take hold?