Global Warming Is A National Security Risk. Why Don’t We Treat It Like One?

Here are the facts: Climate change kills more people than terrorism. It has worsened the war in Syria and it will soon create a refugee crisis that army generals have called “the greatest threat to the 21st century.”

Climate change isn’t just an inconvenience, it’s a global security threat.

So why aren’t governments treating it like one? The UK is in the middle of a historic general election, yet climate change has barely been whispered by any of the major candidates. And the president of the United States wants to rip up the landmark Paris agreement. Why?

The simple answer is that we’re talking about climate change all wrong. We position global warming almost exclusively as a conservation problem. We talk about ‘saving the planet’ and shrinking ice caps. And that might appeal to some, but it isn’t enough to sway sceptic politicians and giant corporations.

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