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Climate Change and Security - A Gathering Storm of Global Challenges (Hardcover)
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Climate Change and Security - A Gathering Storm of Global Challenges (Hardcover)
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Human-induced climate change is causing resource scarcities,
natural disasters, and mass migrations, which in turn destabilize
national, international, and human security structures and multiply
the human inputs to climate change. Alarms about the expanding role
of climate change as a force multiplier of existing threats to
national, international, and human security structures studies are
being raised at all levels of governance and
intelligence—national (including the U.S. Senate, the Director of
National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the
Pentagon), transnational (including the European Union and the
United Nations), and private (such as the Central News Agency and
the American Security Project). Climate Change and Security: A
Gathering Storm of Global Challenges focuses on the three major
feedback effects of human-induced climate change on human and
international security—resource scarcity, natural disasters, and
sea-level rise. Decreasing per capita availability of renewable
resources due to such regional effects of climate change as drought
and desertification leads to intensified competition for these
resources and may result in armed violence—especially when
compounded by conditions of rapid population growth, tribalism, and
sectarianism, as in Darfur and Somalia. The increase in the
frequency and intensity of meteorological disasters associated with
global warming weakens already debilitated tropical societies and
makes them still more vulnerable to political instability, as in
Haiti. Sea-level rise will lead to disruptive mass migrations of
climate refugees as dense littoral populations are forced to
abandon low-lying coastal regions, as in Bangladesh.
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