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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.
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.
This story was originally reported by Vice, but you don't have to take their word for it - you can also read the original report - Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army, hot off the press from the United States Army War College.
The report is 55 pages long and I don't recommend it for bedtime reading. It covers all sorts of very unpleasant scenarios that have a high probability of occurring if we continue to ignore the problem of climate change as we are now.
For example, there is a high probability of the spread of outbreaks of vector borne (mosquitoes, ticks, etc) infectious diseases worldwide, including in the United States. These diseases include things like West Nile, Zika, Lyme disease and other diseases as yet unknown. Climate change will also cause lands that are now highly productive for agriculture to either become inundated with salt water or else experience increasing frequency of drought, forcing farmers to abandon their fields. The resulting mass migrations of various populations in different countries will lead to humanitarian disasters and ultimately to war. We think we have problems on our southern borders now, but just you wait!
All in all, this document from the United States Army War College is highly readable and highly comprehensive. It's definitely worth glancing through at the very least. The report ends with these words:
It is useful to remind ourselves regularly of the capacity of human beings to persist in stupid beliefs in the
face of significant, contradictory evidence. Mitigation of new large-scale stresses requires a commitment to
learning, systematically, about what is happening...
Unjustified certainty is very costly. The greater your certainty that you are right when you are wrong, the longer it will take you to recognize and incorporate new data into your system of belief, and to change your mind...
It is doubtless correct that many awful things that have not happened before will yet happen. Foresight regarding such events would be nice. It would be nicer still if we could recognize more quickly what is happening right in front of us. That is the right starting point for thinking strategically about the warming climate.
Despite dire warnings such as this, the Trumpists and their fellow-travelers will insist to the end, that global-warming is a hoax. Do you suppose that most of them are so old, that they don't think they'll be around long enough to be affected very much? Do they place any value on the legacy they will leave behind them?
Despite dire warnings such as this, the Trumpists and their fellow-travelers will insist to the end, that global-warming is a hoax. Do you suppose that most of them are so old, that they don't think they'll be around long enough to be affected very much? Do they place any value on the legacy they will leave behind them?
Well I guess the pertinent news is that we can now add the US Army War College to the list of hoaxers. Who knew the US Army was so interested in bringing down capitalism?
Oh come on. About every 10 years since the 1960s we've heard the same song and dance: civilization is about to collapse under the weight of poverty, pestilence, famine, war, blah blah blah. And now the military says climate change is going to cause its collapse? Get bloody real. The U.S. military is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth, they have the LEAST to worry about from so-called climate change. If anything will cause the the U.S. military to collapse it will be a lack of eligible recruits because so much of the fighting-age population will be too fat to be in fighting shape.
It's humorous how many people on the left who distrust everything about the military suddenly show no skepticism whatsoever about their motives when the military's propaganda aligns with their own preferred narrative.
What a joke. More alarmist propaganda to get funding, and redistribute income. Now the military wants in on it? Trump has increased military spending. They should be happy, but I guess they don't like us getting out of NEEDLESS WARS as the military industrial complex doesn't like their cash cow being reduced ever.
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Our U.S. military will be just fine as long as a conservative is in office. In this day, that's the only way it happens. If it does collapse, then it won't be because of so-called "climate change". It will be only because a left-wing socialist loon somehow gets elected, and nothing more.
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About every 10 years since the 1960s we've heard the same song and dance: civilization is about to collapse under the weight of poverty, pestilence, famine, war, blah blah blah. And now the military says climate change is going to cause its collapse? Get bloody real. The U.S. military is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth, they have the LEAST to worry about from so-called climate change. If anything will cause the the U.S. military to collapse it will be a lack of eligible recruits because so much of the fighting-age population will be too fat to be in fighting shape.
