Armies must ready for global warming role: Britain - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Armies must ready for global warming role: Britain

By Jeremy Lovell
55 minutes ago

LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming is such a threat to security
that military planners must build it into their calculations, the
head of Britain's armed forces said on Monday.

Jock Stirrup, chief of the defense staff, said risks that climate
change could cause weakened states to disintegrate and produce
major humanitarian disasters or exploitation by armed groups
had to become a feature of military planning.

But he said first analyses showed planners would not have to
switch their geographical focus, because the areas most vulnerable
to climate change are those where security risks are already high.

"Just glance at a map of the areas most likely to be affected and
you are struck at once by the fact that they are exactly those parts
of the world where we see fragility, instability and weak governance
today.

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[jwirr]

1. "Exploited by armed groups" such as Blackwater?

[fazoolius_2006]

2. A lot of what ifs there