In a new op-ed published in collaboration with Island Press, Sherri Goodman (author of Threat Multiplier) spotlights how the U.S. military has become an example of the steady progress that can occur when the government takes climate change seriously.
She writes:
As some politicians continue to argue about the economic impacts of climate legislation or question the imminent nature of climate threats — in September former President Trump called climate change a “scam” — the U.S. military has reorganized itself around the knowledge that climate change poses an unprecedented risk to national security. It has integrated climate preparedness into many dimensions of planning and operations. This includes not just deployments for humanitarian assistance and disaster response, but also gaming out the geostrategic impacts of the evolving climate, making adaptations to military training, building resilience into installations and shifting to alternative energy sources to improve military effectiveness.
Read the full piece in Politico HERE.
