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dereliction of duty. make no mistake, it will impact how our military defending our one the. so we need to act. and we need to act now. politicians who say they care about military readiness ought to care about this as well. the president told graduates, climate change has already damaged military if a sill isties and it s directly shaping how they will serve. around the world, climate change increases the risk of instability and conflict. rising seas are already swallowing low lying lands from bangladesh to pacific islands. elsewhere, more intense droughts will exacerbate shortages of water and food. increased competition for resources, and create the potential for mass migrations and new tensions. all of which is why the pentagon calls climate change a threat multiplier. joining me now, admiral thad allen who helped lead the federal response to the
that seem to be incapable or unwilling to acknowledge what the science is about this issue? i testified before congress several times on the reduction of sea ice in the arctic they were trying to pin me down on scientific questions. obviously i m not a scientist. there was water where there didn t used to be we re responsible for it we have to operate in it. it s a reality in day to day lives, military operations. where the folks live in these areas have to live. we have to understand that it s there, we have to operate and carry out our duties. it was fascinating to me in the trove of bin laden documents, one of them was an undated document written by bin laden discussing the massive consequence of climate change. it strikes me as you know if your enemies if you want to deny something s happening, that s not going to stop your enemy from denying something s happening? there s been a lot of discussion about whether or not
but unfortunately, we do have occasionally these kinds of major events. it really points to an issue we ve been addressing at the department of energy recently, which is the whole issue of energy infrastructure, pipelines, wires, you know, transmission grids. we have a lot of old infrastructure, a lot of investment made in the 60s and 70s, we re talking 40, 50 years old, and our theme right now, and i know climate change has been on your mind as well. our theme right now is that we have to really be investing to rebuild our infrastructure, we have to rebuild it now in a way that really makes sense for the challenges ahead. one of those challenges is the kinds of extreme weather that we have been seeing, we expect to see more of, and we need to have all of our infrastructure more resilient to a whole set of risks. that s not even on the mitigation, that s on the adaptation side, that s not
change or weather affects that. you need to factor that in to the capability and tactics. there s been a long record in recent history of people talking about the security threat of climate change. i feel like there s always an expectation that that s going to be the thing that breaks through and makes everyone take notice. and it never seems to happen. i think it s always been there. if you look at the security issues related to crop failures fish stocks declining, the instability that comes from that. regions of the world become less governed or lawless, i think it s always been there, the question is, can we localize and understand what s going on and be able to respond to it. you can call it climate adaption, climate change whatever you want. our threats out there are evolving and some of that is related to climate. do you have a response to the parts of the political system