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Michael T. Klare ALL HELL BREAKING LOOSE: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change

Mendocino County Public Broadcasting | By Joy LaClaire

Published February 6, 2020 at 11:37 AM PST

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The US Military segments the world into 6 command centers

(from All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change Metropolitan Books)

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A map identifying military bases that have reported problems from heavy flooding, extreme temperatures, prolonged drought, and other climate impacts.

(from All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change Metropolitan Books)

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Increasing water scarcity as the river systems sourced in the glaciers of the Himalayan watershed is a major concern affecting nuclear armed nations China, India and Pakistan.

(from All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change Metropolitan Books)

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The Lake Chad Region of Africa

(from All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change Metropolitan Books)

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The Sahel Region of North Africa

(from All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change Metropolitan Books)

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A military truck enters Lakeside Estate in Houston, Texas on August 30, 2017. Monster storm Harvey made landfall again in Louisiana, evoking painful memories of Hurricane Katrina’s deadly strike 12 years ago, as time ran out in Texas to find survivors.";

(THOMAS B. SHEA/AFP/Getty Images)

To hear this Forthright Radio interview with Michael T. Klare about ALL HELL BREAKING LOOSE: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, click on this link:

https://forthright.media/2020/02/05/michael-t-klare-all-hell-breaking-loose-the-pentagons-perspective-on-climate-change/

The United States military has been aware of the escalating dangers of catastrophic climate disruption longer than most other branches of government. In spite of Donald Trump’s quick rescinding of Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13653, issued in 2013, “Preparing the US for the Impact of Climate Change,” the military has quietly continued to do just that.

In his latest meticulously researched book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, the Five College Professor Emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College and senior visitiing fellow at the Arms Control Association, Michael T. Klare, shows that the US military considers climate change a danger on several fronts at once.