WASHINGTON
— The accelerating rate of climate change poses a severe risk to
national security and acts as a catalyst for global political conflict, a report published Tuesday by a leading government-funded military research organization concluded.
The CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board
found that climate change-induced drought in the Middle East and Africa
is leading to conflicts over food and water and escalating longstanding
regional and ethnic tensions into violent clashes. The report also
found that rising sea levels are putting people and food supplies in
vulnerable coastal regions like eastern India, Bangladesh and the Mekong
Delta in Vietnam at risk and could lead to a new wave of refugees.
In
addition, the report predicted that an increase in catastrophic weather
events around the world will create more demand for American troops,
even as flooding and extreme weather events at home could damage naval
ports and military bases.
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