The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say.
Wait, but the military can't be trusted to work alongside law enforcement in apprehending terrorists?!
But a growing number of policy makers say that the world’s rising temperatures, surging seas and melting glaciers are a direct threat to the national interest.
If the United States does not lead the world in reducing fossil-fuel consumption and thus emissions of global warming gases, proponents of this view say, a series of global environmental, social, political and possibly military crises loom that the nation will urgently have to address.
So if you bitch about mounting utility bills, you are working against the national interest, and thus become an enemy of the state (and a meanie for not caring about Mother Gaia).
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