US Military Could Collapse with 20 years due to Climate Change

[abundance]

According to US military officials

 

 

This is pretty concerning. What do you guys think?

[Nak Khid]

We are potentially headed to large scale reduction of food and water supply perhaps somewhere between 2-20 years.

see link below for full article

 

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U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says

The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.

by Nafeez Ahmed

Oct 24 2019, 9:00am

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmkz8/us-military-could-collapse-within-20-years-due-to-climate-change-report-commissioned-by-pentagon-says

The report was commissioned by General Mark Milley, Trump's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the highest-ranking military officer in the country (the report also puts him at odds with Trump, who does not take climate change seriously.)

The report, titled Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army, was launched by the U.S. Army War College in partnership with NASA in May at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. The report was commissioned by Gen. Milley during his previous role as the Army’s Chief of Staff. It was made publicly available in August via the Center for Climate and Security, but didn't get a lot of attention at the time.

The two most prominent scenarios in the report focus on the risk of a collapse of the power grid within “the next 20 years,” and the danger of disease epidemics. Both could be triggered by climate change in the near-term, it notes.

“If the power grid infrastructure were to collapse, the United States would experience significant:

Loss of perishable foods and medications

Loss of water and wastewater distribution systems

Loss of heating/air conditioning and electrical lighting systems

Loss of computer, telephone, and communications systems (including airline flights, satellite networks and GPS services)

Loss of public transportation systems

Loss of fuel distribution systems and fuel pipelines

Loss of all electrical systems that do not have back-up power”

 

[SoothedByRain]

pretty concerning . . . .

Our civilisation is highly unbalanced. The geo-politics of the next 20 years is going to get real ugly, real quick.

[montecristo]

the more complex a system is the more vulnerable it is.