An interesting tactic. As New York Times front page story reports, it's an end-run around hawks and right-wingers, the Obama Administration has ordered the Defense Department to research how climate change would affect military operations.
The results are hardly surprising. Droughts and food shortages create population exodus in the third world, which creates border skirmishes. Unstable despots use new immigrants to ramp up nationalism and military power. The result: America's military has to be used as "peace keepers" or at least to drop in humanitarian aid, reducing its readiness around the world and taxing resources.
Will it be enough to shift the debate from polar bears and turtles and climate to military readiness and American security and climate? Senator Bob Kerry, Vietnam war hero, makes the perfect messenger as he carries the flag for the environment and the Pentagon. Hard to argue with that.
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