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GreenPolicy360 / New Horizons of Security


New Definitions of National... and Global Security

GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands / #StratDem


GreenPolicy360/StrategicDemands: The key to 21st century security is "strategic realism". Any full scientific assessment of security threats on the horizon is replete with environmental/global risks that are drawing daily into view. These risks are presenting a clear and present danger, in U.S. Department of Defense terms, yet are being in the whole set aside within current U.S. defense planning due to political exigencies. Forward planning with a new and more acutely aware vision of security is demanded now. GreenPolicy360 and its associate Strategic Demands challenge the prevailing view that is not focused as it must be on existential threats of our era.


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Environmental Security ↔ National Security


National Security: Enhanced via Environmental Security

@ Strategic Demands: "New Definitions of National Security"

@ GreenPolicy360: "New Definitions of National Security"


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2021


Acknowledging a Profound Shift in U.S. Security Policy

Biden administration accelerates out of the starting gate

GreenPolicy360:

Yes, a redefinition of U.S. national (and global) security is now being envisioned. GreenPolicy360's point of view on the strategic demand for a new 21st century vision is taking place. The new U.S. Biden administration with governing leadership, executive orders, and promised follow-on legislative actions, is making a strong push to redefine real security. New definitions, new vision, operational multi-front action is 'in the works'...


Here, Michael E. Mann begins to capture the moment in a USA Today opinion:

Now, Biden is gathering his council to assess the current and future dangers in this fight, including all 17 intelligence agencies; a general on the international front, John Kerry, who will also have a seat on the National Security Council and will direct our diplomatic efforts abroad; and another general on the domestic front, former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy, who will coordinate climate action in the homeland. 



PART I — PUTTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS AT THE CENTER OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY

Section 101. Policy. United States international engagement to address climate change — which has become a climate crisis — is more necessary and urgent than ever. The scientific community has made clear that the scale and speed of necessary action is greater than previously believed. There is little time left to avoid setting the world on a dangerous, potentially catastrophic, climate trajectory. Responding to the climate crisis will require both significant short-term global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and net-zero global emissions by mid-century or before.

It is the policy of my Administration that climate considerations shall be an essential element of United States foreign policy and national security. The United States will work with other countries and partners, both bilaterally and multilaterally, to put the world on a sustainable climate pathway. The United States will also move quickly to build resilience, both at home and abroad, against the impacts of climate change that are already manifest and will continue to intensify according to current trajectories.

Sec. 102. Purpose. This order builds on and reaffirms actions my Administration has already taken to place the climate crisis at the forefront of this Nation’s foreign policy and national security planning...

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Biden Team 'Hits the Ground Running'

Climate change ..... "an existential threat"...

President Biden steps up:

The executive order I’ll be signing establishes a White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy. And it’ll be led by one of America’s most distinguished climate leaders, former EPA Director Gina McCarthy. As the head of the new office and my National Climate Advisor, Gina will chair a National Climate Task Force, made up of many members of our Cabinet, to deliver a whole-of-government approach to the climate crisis.

(T)he whole-of-government approach is necessary... We’re going to work with mayors and governors and tribal leaders and business leaders who are stepping up, and the young people organizing and leading the way. My message to those young people is: You have the full capacity and power of the federal government. Your government is going to work with you.

... a new, modern-day Civilian Climate Corps ...

Look, this executive order I’m signing today also makes it official that climate change will be at the center of our national security and foreign policy...

Actionable solutions, not pie-in-the-sky dreams... it is not time for small measures; we need to be bold...

(T)oday’s executive order will help strengthen that commitment by working with other nations to support the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change and to increase our collective resilience. That includes a summit of world leaders that I’ll convene to address this climate crisis on Earth Day, this year.

In order to establish a new effort to integrate the security implications of climate change as part of our national security and risk assessment and analysis will also be included.

Earlier this month, I nominated Dr. Eric Lander, a brilliant scientist who is here today, to be the Director of the Office of Science and Technology. I also nominated another brilliant scientist, Dr. Frances Arnold and Dr. Maria Zuber, to co-chair the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology...

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2020


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November 23, 2020


U.S. President Elect Selects John Kerry as International Climate 'Envoy'

First-ever Climate Security Position Created by Biden
Kerry to Join National Security Council with Presidential Cabinet-level Status


GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands applaud this historic, critically important shift in the U.S. policy and vision

For years GreenPolicy360 and StratDem have advocated Climate Policy become a U.S. National/Global Security priority


New Definitions of National & Global Security


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President-elect Biden planning to move fast on climate

The incoming U.S. president pledges to act to rejoin the international Paris climate agreement on his first day in office


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Nationalism and Division: U.S. Reputation and Status Continues to Decline in the Eyes of the World


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European Union High Court Rules in Favor of Net Neutrality

Major Legal Decision Sets Direction of Internet Policy


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This App Could Be a Game Changer

This could be a very big deal

There’s an old truism in the business world: what gets measured gets managed. One of the challenges in managing the greenhouse gas emissions warming the atmosphere is that they aren’t measured very well.

“Currently, most countries do not know where most of their emissions come from,” says Kelly Sims Gallagher, a professor of energy and environmental policy at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. “Even in advanced economies like the United States, emissions are estimated for many sectors.” Without this information “you cannot devise smart and effective policies to mitigate emissions,” she says, and “you cannot track them to see if you are making progress against your goals.”


Measure to Manage

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The ultimate solution to this problem — the killer app, as it were — would be real-time tracking of all global greenhouse gases, verified by objective third parties, and available for free to the public.

Now, a new alliance of climate research groups called the Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) Coalition has launched an effort to make the vision a reality, and they’re aiming to have it ready for COP26, the climate meetings in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021 (postponed from November 2020). If they pull it off, it could completely change the tenor and direction of international climate talks.


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Big Green / Renewable Energy Storage Solutions

Being Engineered for Tomorrow's World


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2019


Moving Past a World of Wars to Control Petro-Resources


Rebecca Solnit in The Guardian / October 2019: To define the climate movement as a peace movement means defining the wars it seeks to end. They have been filthy, brutal and corrosive. We can do better. We can move past fossil fuel. We can take back power, both political and literal energy-generating power, from these inhuman entities that have dominated much of the earth for a century. We, civil society, we who get poisoned and killed and we who have built a great and powerful climate movement, can make peace, with our energy sources, with our planet and with each other.


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Existential Language

Capturing the Seriousness, the Challenge, and the Crisis


Via The Guardian / May 17, 2019

The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world.

Instead of “climate change” the preferred terms are “climate emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global heating” is favoured over “global warming”, although the original terms are not banned.

“We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue,” said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. “The phrase ‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity.”

“Increasingly, climate scientists and organisations from the UN to the Met Office are changing their terminology, and using stronger language to describe the situation we’re in.”

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, talked of the “climate crisis” in September, adding: “We face a direct existential threat.” The climate scientist Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a former adviser to Angela Merkel, the EU and the pope, also uses “climate crisis”. Advertisement

In December, Prof Richard Betts, who leads the Met Office’s climate research, said “global heating” was a more accurate term than “global warming” to describe the changes taking place to the world’s climate. In the political world, UK MPs recently endorsed the Labour party’s declaration of a “climate emergency”.

The scale of the climate and wildlife crises has been laid bare by two landmark reports from the world’s scientists. In October, they said carbon emissions must halve by 2030 to avoid even greater risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. In May, global scientists said human society was in jeopardy from the accelerating annihilation of wildlife and destruction of the ecosystems that support all life on Earth.

Other terms that have been updated, including the use of “wildlife” rather than “biodiversity”, “fish populations” instead of “fish stocks” and “climate science denier” rather than “climate sceptic”. In September, the BBC accepted it gets coverage of climate change “wrong too often” and told staff: “You do not need a ‘denier’ to balance the debate.”

Earlier in May, Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has inspired school strikes for climate around the globe, said: “It’s 2019. Can we all now call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency?”

 

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Strategic Demands of the 21st Cenrury (PDF)


 

Strategic Demands

A New Vision by Roger Morris & Steven Schmidt


Strategic Demands: Ominous 2019


https://www.strategicdemands.com/carnegie-nuclear-policy-conference/

https://www.strategicdemands.com/regional-nuclear-conflict-global-nuclear-catastrophe/

https://www.strategicdemands.com/global-security-fears-climate-and-u-s/

https://www.strategicdemands.com/back-to-the-brink-nuclear-catastrophe/

https://www.strategicdemands.com/dems-re-intro-bill-to-prevent-nuclear-first-use/

https://www.strategicdemands.com/bulletin-of-atomic-scientists-two-minutes/

https://www.strategicdemands.com/nukes-nuking-nuked/

https://www.strategicdemands.com/kcna-re-denuclearization/

https://www.strategicdemands.com/hello-down-there/


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Jerry Brown Joins with The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

California Governor Jerry Brown to focus on 'existential threats', climate and nuclear weapons, as his fourth term in office draws to a close and his next chapter of life begins:

"I'm a planetary realist. We are linked in this community of people, 7.3, 7.4 billion people whether it's cyber, or the international monetary system, or weather, or disease, or climate change or habitat destruction, or if there's a nuclear war. For the first time in history we're all linked together. So there is a planetary quality to our politics, or there should be."

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown


Jerry Brown's warning with the Atomic Scientists

“The blindness and stupidity of the politicians and their consultants is truly shocking in the face of nuclear catastrophe,” Brown said. “We know that thousands of these weapons on high alert could be launched by mistake…. We are almost like travelers on the Titanic, seeing the iceberg up ahead but enjoying the elegant dining and the music.”

“The danger and probability is mounting that there will be some kind of nuclear incident that will kill millions, if not initiating exchanges that will kill billions.”


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Re: the Risks of Nuclear Weapons @StrategicDemands, GreenPolicy360's associate
https://www.strategicdemands.com/bulletin-of-atomic-scientists-two-minutes/
https://www.strategicdemands.com/dems-re-intro-bill-to-prevent-nuclear-first-use/
https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/


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Rethinking the Risks of Nuclear Weapons


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StratDem

Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands
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Nuclear use? What is it there for, if it can’t be used?
The U.S. President


Nuclear Weapons



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http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
http://strategicdemands.com/stewards-of-the-apocalypse/
http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/
http://strategicdemands.com/oversight-us-nuclear-arsenal/


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Nedded Now: A New Vision Advancing Nuclear Non-proliferation


http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-treaty-adopted-historic-moment/
http://strategicdemands.com/long-game-diplomacy-war/
http://strategicdemands.com/status-nuclear-ban-negotiations/
http://strategicdemands.com/the-trump-doctrine/
http://strategicdemands.com/day-to-remember-june-1-2017/
http://strategicdemands.com/the-way-of-war/
http://strategicdemands.com/eco-nomics-new-definitions-security/


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We Must Change our Vision of Security to International Cooperation

Strategies of Survival, 'Eco-nomics' and Sustainable Progress


Green New Deal


National Security Shifts from Climate Science and Nuclear Weapons Control

US President drops climate change from national security strategy

The U.S. stance represents a sharp change from the Obama administration’s national security strategy

Trump administration rejects international consensus on containing global warming and limiting nuclear weapons

U.S. turns away from leadership in the international community in clean energy and advocates a return to nuclear weapons dominance


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Climate News
Earth Right Now
Earth Science Vital Signs


Earth Science Research from Space
Earth and Space, Politics


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Responsibilities of Planet Citizens


www.planetcitizen.org
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SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

Over the decades in my political work, I have endeavored to develop "new definitions of national security."


Earth Systems Science, Environmental Security

Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary

In the late 1960s, inspired by the nascent moments of the modern environmental movement with images from an Apollo mission of the Earth rising from beyond the moon, a life-changing January 1969 cover of Life Magazine, and 'Whole Earth' realizations being shared for the first time, I began my involvement in larger strategic questions.

My initial political mentor George E. Brown and new relationships with thoughtful figures such as Dan Ellsberg at Rand Institute in Santa Monica brought insight into war and peace and challenged me.

The opportunity to become involved in the first Earth Day expanded my vision far beyond academic constraints and I began to explore connections between environmental security and international, global affairs.

Today the mission continues: To create a new security paradigm, a school of thought that identifies and advances contours of "real and resilient security".


Strategic Demands: A New Vision for a New World

Security Brief prepared for the Green Institute by Roger Morris & Steven Schmidt
Strategic Demands @ GreenPolicy360


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US House of Representatives Says 'No' to Pentagon Prepping for Climate Impacts/Disruption

Republicans in US Congress Vote to Block National & Global Security


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http://strategicdemands.com/nasa-pushes-earth-science-to-strengthen-security-capabilities/


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Undercutting Security:

2015/16, US Congress Attempts to Cut Earth Science Research


"House Science Committee guts NASA Earth sciences budget... attack on climate research and responses"

"Republicans in the House and Senate don't want NASA studying Earth..."


Earth Science, NASA Climate Change Research Continues In Peril


"Slash and Burn Earth Sciences"



Funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs?


On May 1, 2015, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Dr. John P. Holdren issued the following statement on proposed funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs:

"If enacted, the NASA authorization bill headed to the House floor later this month would do serious damage to the Nation’s space program, as well as to Earth-observation and Earth-science programs essential for predicting, preparing for, and minimizing the damage from disasters both natural and human-induced...

The House bill would also gut the NASA “mission to planet Earth”—the satellite observations and related research that provide key measurements and insights relevant to forecasting and tracking hurricanes, fighting wildfires, observing the state of the world’s farms and forests, mapping the extent of droughts, measuring the stocks of groundwater, and monitoring the likelihood of landslides. The draconian cuts in the House bill would also delay advances in our ability to research and prepare for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis and blind us to changes in the Earth’s oceans and ice sheets that can be discerned only from space.

NASA’s mission to observe, understand, and explore the solar system and the cosmos beyond has long been matched in importance by its mission to use the unrivaled vantage point of Earth orbit for looking downward, to better understand the only home that humanity currently has. It is difficult to understand why, at this time of U.S. leadership in both the outward-facing and inward-facing facets of NASA’s operations in space, the Congress would want to undermine that leadership and sacrifice the panoply of benefits it brings to the Nation."


Visit NASA Science @ GreenPolicy360


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Environmental Law


Environmental Protections Nationally and Globally


Climate Change Laws Around the World
Trends in Climate Change Legislation


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National Security & Environmental Security: Editorial Opinion from GreenPolicy's Associate, Strategic Demands

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Tag: Eco-nomics, a 21st Century paradigm in development @GreenPolicy360


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Multi-Sum Security: Five Distinct Dimensions

Five discrete but overlapping dimensions of global security are discussed – including the oft-overlooked importance of transcultural security – to extend beyond the traditional, statecentric security paradigm.

Since the 1990s, there have been a number of attempts to broaden the conception of security beyond the purely state-centric model. A cooperative security concept was advanced in response to the realization that states needed to cooperate to tackle the multiple security challenges that were identified in the post-Cold War era. This concept suggested that national security was no longer just a national concern and called for enhanced cooperation between states.

http://www.css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/articles/article.html/124192/pdf



In the U.S., the world’s second-largest producer of greenhouse gases, transportation makes up the largest share of emissions.

Plugging in cars and trucks is a critical national challenge. How far has the U.S. progressed in its move to electric vehicles and transportation networks?


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space



"EnviroSecurity"

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Envirosecurity


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