In a memo released Friday, the U.S. Army announced that it now classifies climate change as a “serious threat to U.S. national security interests and defense objectives.” The statement subsequently signaled the military’s intention to prioritize combatting climate change with new risk analyses, threat projections, installation and natural-resource planning, supply-chain procurement considerations, and general strategy.
The statement added that the effects of climate change can induce “humanitarian disasters, undermine weak governments and contribute to long-term social and economic disruptions.”
“The Army has a lot to be proud of, yet there is a lot of work to continue to operate efficiently across extreme weather and climate conditions,” the memo read.
To prepare for and mitigate the fallout from the Earth’s warming, the Army plans to conduct “in-depth assessments of likely climate change effects on the Army’s worldwide missions,” while also working to “lead the way in technology development for tactical vehicles that balances increased capability with decreased climate impacts.”
The Army’s policy change comes after the Biden administration signaled its commitment to fighting the climate crisis as a national-security threat. In April, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III called climate change an “existential threat.”
“From coast to coast and across the world, the climate crisis has caused substantial damage and put people in danger, making it more difficult for us to carry out our mission of defending the United States and our allies,” Austin commented at the Leaders Summit on Climate.
At the conference, the secretary shared that Biden had charged the United States’ 18 intelligence organizations with drafting a National Intelligence Estimate detailing the national-security implications of climate change.
“We in the Department of Defense are committed to doing our part, from increasing the energy efficiency of our platforms and installations, to deploying clean distributed generation and energy storage, to electrifying our own vehicle fleets,” he said.
Austin emphasized the need to forge a new economic sector and global infrastructure for clean energy that is sustainable and renewable. He confirmed that other allies and strategic partners are collaborating with the United States in meeting the challenge.
“We’re not alone,” he said.
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‘Army Prioritizes Climate Change as ‘Serious Threat’ to National Security’ It seems that China poses a bigger threat than any perceived Climate Change.
I can’t support this…how did our military morph into this woke nonsense? Cut their funding.
I cannot believe the ever-growing arrogance of the human race. Many actually believe they can stop, slow, alter, or end ‘global warming’! Global warming – and cooling – is a natural phenomenon that has cycled since the Earth was formed! In the grand scheme of things, (Universally speaking), the human race is no more than an insignificant parasitic infestation that formed on this planet – one of untold trillions of planets! What makes ANYONE think that we capable of changing the natural order of things?
China is a problem. If climate change is that big of a deal the bombs need to start falling on China NOW. I really doubt the USA military will waive their emmisons waiver and add DPF to their diesels. It is all “woke bullshit”.
The army should stand back and look at itself and see what it has become!
hey army, CHINA AND THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGALS POURING OVER THE BORDER every month ARE THE THREAT. my father was in the army in world war two. you people where stupid then and you still are. big news FLASH the climate has been CHANGING way,way, way before there was an army.
WHY is the military WASTING valuable resources on a SCAM. You can bet the next enemy we face won’t be wasting their resources on idiotic global warming, climate change or whatever they can this myth!!!
….Army? Arm sounds to masculine, to male.
Dat will have to change.
Limb not Arm.
Change ‘US Army’ to ‘US Limpy’
Ya, that will pass leftist analysis.
Nonsense!! Number one threat to National Security is Fauci/CDC Lockdowns. They have destroyed the economy of the US and destroyed the education an d mental health of countless children. Military needs to Arrest them!!