Title:
All hell breaking loose : the Pentagon's perspective on climate change / Michael T. Klare.
ISBN:
9781627792486
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
©2019
Physical Description:
viii, 293 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- A world besieged : the climate threat to American national security -- Humanitarian emergencies : climate disasters, civil disorder, and U. S. military relief operations -- States on the brink : Resource scarcity, ethnic strife, and government collapse -- Global shock waves : food shortages, energy crises, pandemics, and mass migrations -- Great-power clashes : the melting Arctic and other conflict zones -- The homeland at risk : domestic climate disasters and the military's strategic predicament -- No safe harbors : the climate change threat to American military facilities -- Going green : the Pentagon as change agent.
Summary:
Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, renowned security expert Klare shows that the U.S. military sees the climate threat as imperiling the country on several fronts at once.
None of the major institutions in American society take climate change as seriously as the U.S. military. As participants in climate-triggered conflicts abroad, and as first responders to hurricanes and other disasters on American soil, the armed services are already confronting the impacts of global warming. Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, Klare shows how droughts and food shortages are stoking conflicts in ethnically divided nations. Pandemics and other humanitarian disasters will increasingly require extensive military involvement. And rising seas threaten American cities and military bases themselves. -- adapted from jacket
OCLC Number:
on1126650652
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
