Climate change should be recognized for what it is: An issue of national security

ABSTRACT

President-Elect Biden should make climate change and ecological instability vital national security priorities.

KEYWORDS:

• National security doctrine
• office of science and technology policy
• climate change and national security

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Funding

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

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Rod Schoonover

Rod Schoonover is the founder of the Ecological Futures Group, a senior fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks, and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2009 to 2019 he was a senior US intelligence scientist and analyst at the National Intelligence Council and State Department. He is an adjunct professor in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California.