Climate change is a threat not to only the environment, but to national security, a bipartisan group of 25 military and national security experts said Wednesday in a statement. “Climate change increases stress on water, food and energy security both in the U.S. and globally, resulting in unique and hard-to-predict security risks, based on a combination of rapidly changing physical, environmental, economic, social and political conditions,” The statement says
The experts said climate change presents risks to parts of the world of “strategic significance” to the U.S., which can result in political and financial instability. “Stresses resulting from climate change can increase the likelihood of intra or international conflict, state failure, mass migration, and the creation of additional ungoverned spaces, across a range of strategically-significant regions, including but not limited to the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, the Indo-Asia-Pacific, and the Arctic regions,” the statement says.
