Extreme weather events - catastrophic storms and flooding
Sea levels will rise
Populations will move...in large numbers...always into where someone else lives, and sometimes across borders
Water shortages
Droughts
Food production is likely to drop
Arctic ice is retreating, for resources that had, until now, been covered under ice
Global warming
CO2 emissions
Reinforcing factories or energy stations or transmission lines or ports that might be at risk of storms or flooding
Energy, where diversity of supply is a security issue
Natural and humanitarian disasters
Big storms, or floods, or sudden movements of populations
Fuel efficiency, reduc[ing] our overall dependence on foreign sources of fuel
None of the seventeen developments mentioned can even remotely be construed as a military threat and certainly not one posed by recognized state actors.
Surely no "rogue states" or "outposts of tyranny" or "international terrorists" are responsible for climate change, yet Rasmussen's proposals for contending with it are military ones.
