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Unwilling to SacrificeAuthor: Paul Margolis & Ilan Cohen
How our daily choices are disrupting and unbalancing the planet. Language: en Genres: Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The United States has no grand strategy for Environmental Security as it cannot tell itself a consistent, believable story about what is happening and stick to it.
Episode 7
Monday, 13 September, 2021
Will it really take 15-20 years to educate our youth and fundamentally shift society? Can the planet really recover from all human destruction in 100-200 years? The United States has no grand strategy for Environmental Security as it cannot tell itself a consistent, believable story about what is happening and stick to it. It does not fully comprehend how environmental security has become an increasingly critical component of its own national security, sovereignty and legitimacy. The Federal Government and previous administrations have continued to use outdated assumptions and data to make decisions, resulting in policies and strategies unfit for the 21st century. Environmental security threats directly endanger US National Security and need to be written into the American security agenda and Federal legislation at or above the level equal to the illegal trade in weapons, drugs, people, money laundering and terrorism. A further obstacle–There are no environmental security officers, liaisons or true experts in US embassies or consulates, indicating the US does not take climate change or environmental security very seriously. We need to be part of a generation of propaganda that makes consumption and environmental destruction completely unacceptable, just like the N-word.
