U.S. Army: ‘Climate Change Immediate Threat to National Security,’ Releases Plan

In preparation for the chapter on national security in my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed James Woolsey, former director of the CIA. As I predicted, he was adamant about the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change, on the basis that the Earth’s population, living on a planet with ever-diminishing resources like food, potable water, and land mass itself, is bound to become increasingly volatile.

A dozen years later, the U.S. Army has issued a comprehensive plan to address climate change before the global situation gets to a point where whole societies are no longer viable and become so desperate that they turn to violence.

Regardless of one’s view about the U.S. military, it’s hard not to admire the strength with which they uphold the oath they take to defend the country, and a critical element of this is respecting science over politics.  Where today’s GOP taps into a voter base that refers to climate activists as “woke socialists,” the armed forces cannot and will not ignore that the consensus of our scientists are imploring us to do vis-à-vis decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors.