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Revision as of 11:00, 13 October 2019

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GreenPolicy360 / New Horizons of Security


New Definitions of National & 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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2019/2018/2017


Moving beyond 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?”

 


Planet Citizen Greta Speaks to the European Union

'Wake Up and Take Action'


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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
http://www.strategicdemands.com


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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We Must Change from an Era of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

to a New Century 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
www.planetcitizens.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."

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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Visit GreenPolicy's Associate -- Strategic Demands



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

(@StrategicDemands)



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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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