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Video: Climate Change and National Security

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Mad Prophet Ludwig7/05/2010 6:00:44 pm PDT

Excellent video.

Let’s recap some points.

I’ll go from least awful to most awful:

1. 1.5-2.0 m rise in sea level by 2100. That in of itself will produce 500 million to one billion refugees, not to mention the complete collapse of our major coastal cities and coastal infrastructure. Hundreds of millions without homes and trillions of dollars lost. I recall the many here who called me chicken little for telling you the science first. I wish the science were different.

2. Mass starvation as eco systems fail. As I have pointed out many times here the United States is potentially facing a 95% reduction in crop output. That is worst case scenario admittedly. As the admiral pointed out, all models have been consistently outpaced by the actual changes we are seeing as things begin to change at exponential rates.

3. Three meals from anarchy. Starving people have the choice of fighting or dying. Governments will collapse, our military will be called nito more and more urban conflicts and then eventually, to keep mass waves of migrants out of America to protect our own dwindling supplies. We will be forced to send out soldiers to murder starving families trying to get here. Then when our food fails, they will have to determine who gets fed and who doesn’t/

4. Loss of fresh water. 55 million Americans get there water from melts that will no longer be there. You can not live without water. Those people must move. Yes, in the long run, survivors might learn to be fremen, but most will perish. World wide the issue is larger.

5. Collapse of oceanic eco systems. This is the gift that keeps killing. The loss of food supply and oxygen supply from the oceans in the long terms will be utterly catastrophic. It will take thousands of years to turn that around. There have been mass extinctions in the past from such events. It can happen again.

Understand that from a military perspective we are looking at a global collapse and these generals and admirals are saying that they as the military will not be able to hold it all together. We act now in the coming decades or we face the complete collapse of our civilization. It is that simple. There is no more important issue. There is no more important challenge. Failure is not an option and we are failing.

Fortunately the technologies exist to change this and it it would even be a win on security, economy and quality of life to do so. However, we lack the political will to stand up to the vested moneyed interests that have our lives in the balance.