How will people in developing lands view the United States, and what will they do, or want to do, when famine spreads right across Africa, when farmlands are flooded, when tens or hundreds of thousands are displaced and become refugees? What threats will the spread of disease create? How will desperate people be co-opted into dangerous movements?
There are plenty of people who discuss and write about these topics for a living, but they tend to exist in think-tanks, occasionally producing papers and reports that are read by other people in think tanks and institutions that just don't seem to have any trumpets when it comes to sounding a real alarm. Here's an article posted in New Energy Watch almost two years ago outlining the position paper written by 11 retired admirals and generals, and put out by the CNA Corporation. Their bottom line: climate change is a serious threat multiplier.
The issue has finally made it to the front page of the New York Times.
Retired Marine general Anthony Zinni makes a simple assertion: We'll either pay now, economically, to deal with climate change, or we'll pay later with human lives.
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