The Marshall Institute - Climate Change and National Security: Are They Linked?

Climate change becomes a security concern only if the societies affected are unable to cope with the changes, O'Keefe argues. He concludes: "The impacts of weather events or climate change in the developing world are not caused by developed world carbon emissions. They are caused primarily by extreme poverty which is the result of exploitation by dictators, and the lack of economic and personal freedom, the rule of law, property rights, and access to commercial energy. Solving the problem of poverty in these countries would provide them the capacity and resilience to deal with whatever climate exists in the future."

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Central Park in my beloved NYC will lose over 1,000 trees. This kind of extreme weather is just what scientists predicted . Climate change!!