New German Federal Gov Report Flags Climate Collapse As "Greatest Security Threat Of Our Day And Age"
A report released by the German federal government today highlights growing global climate security risks, including international political destabilization, threats to food security, conflicts over resources like water and even the potential for unregulated geoengineering projects.
“The climate crisis is the greatest security threat of our day and age,” German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said in a statement as the report was released. “Prolonged droughts, severe flooding, dangerous storms and devastating crop failures already cause damage running into the billions each year and claim thousands of lives.” “Once-in-a-century” disasters are now striking year after year, showing that the climate crisis is real, and that “it destabilizes societies, exacerbates conflicts over land, water and food, creates new flashpoints and increases migration, including to Europe,” she said.
Thinking about climate is central to Germany’s national security strategy, she said, and will be “integral” to discussions at the upcoming Munich Security Conference, where climate-conscious European security officials will meet their United States counterparts for the first time since American voters elected a president who has rejected climate change as a hoax.
The National Interdisciplinary Climate Risk Assessment was prepared by an independent consortium of think tanks and climate research institutes, as well as the German Federal Intelligence Service. Germany is only the second country worldwide, following the United States, to have commissioned a systematic climate and security study.
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