Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, asks the question. Do nuclear weapons matter? Strategic Demands replies: Does oblivion matter? Foreign Affairs speaks of nuclear weapons as if they can be rationally used. They are purchased, deployed, and discussed on separate tracks from the rest of the foreign policy agenda, and they are […]
The Consequences Start Now / June 1 From Strategic Demands’ associate, GreenPolicy360, a scan of international reactions to the U.S. president’s decision to reject the global climate agreement as he speaks of climate change as “a hoax” and moves to cut off pro-active measures to build a global effort confronting global threats
Carbon dioxide levels cross 400 ppm threshold, highest in millions of years. As the US House Committee on Science disagrees with climate science consensus, NASA’s chief climate scientist, Gavin Schmidt, is not optimistic: “In my opinion, we won’t ever see a month below 400 ppm”
How can last week’s action by the US House of Representatives Republican majority to block the Pentagon’s national security work be described? Experts are attempting to decipher the straight party line vote and consequences of the Grand Old Party/GOP denial of real and rising threats to the nation’s security
The Return Home
“Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space.” ~ Astronaut Alexander Gerst The Security Horizon New Definitions of National Security Environmental Security — National Security
As the nations of the world offer up in Paris individual INDC plans addressing the threat multiplier of climate change, the sands of time inexorably shift and the New Year arrives…
It is a day for movers and shakers, December 12, 2015. The Paris Agreement on climate change commits almost 200 nations of the world to work toward a shift from fossil fuels to renewables and, in effect, reduces the full-costs/true-costs of fossil-fueled economies, energy conflicts and lost opportunities. The future is closer today
StratDem Op/Ed: A momentous time in which we live and time to face a security issue that affects all of the nearly 200 nations assembled in Paris, an issue of issues, the fate of the planet’s environmental security overarching national security for each nation
NASA Earth Science — We are tackling fundamental questions… how is Earth changing? What causes these changes? How will Earth change in the future
May 2015 Undercutting Security: Congress Moves to Eviscerate Earth Science Programs. Straight party-line vote sends draconian NASA budget cuts out of committee to the House floor
Actionable intelligence: US military planning for environmental security and national security
Environmental Security… National Security… “National Security” demands an expanded definition going forward into the 21st century as a result of changing environmental conditions, the dynamics of interactive networks, and new means and open methods of sharing critical environmental information.
