BGen Stephen Cheney, Andrew Holland, and Catherine Foley Quoted in BusinessMirror
An article in BusinessMirror provided an in depth look at ASP’s new “Climate Security Report.” The article quoted several members of ASP staff – Adjunct Fellow Catherine Foley, Senior Fellow Andrew Holland, and ASP CEO BGen Stephen Cheney, USMC (Ret.). From the article:
How local changes in weather and climate affect security in each region will depend on local socioeconomic and political factors,” Climate Security Report authors Catherine Foley and Andrew Holland said.
According to the report, “climate change is real” as evidenced by its impacts every day around the world, such as the melting Arctic, unprecedented droughts across the world, extreme examples of flooding and uncontrollable wildfires, which “present a greater challenge than just new and different weather patterns.”
And also:
ALTHOUGH the Climate Security Report is not the first of its kind, since there were already numerous reports in the past that pointed to climate change as the new global security threat, this is the first to focus on the effects of climate change all over the world in relation to the role of the United States as a global superpower.
“Security is a fundamental responsibility of the US military now more than ever, as the threats to American interests change rapidly,” Brig. Gen. Stephen A. Cheney (retired), chief executive officer of the ASP, said in the introduction to the report.
While the report focused on the role of the United States—because as a world superpower it can help “ensure global stability in a warming world”—it devoted the whole of Part 2 (32 pages) to global security.
“As a global superpower with military forces deployed around the world, the interests of the US and its allies will be impacted by a changing climate,” the authors explained in the introduction to Part 2 of the report.
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