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Global warming as national security issue? Old news here!
By WDavidStephenson | May 22, 2007
(this is one of the events that transpired while I was incommuniblogicato that I’ll be addressing belatedly because of its importance)…
The news that Director of Intelligence McConnell is has decided it is “entirely appropriate” that the intelligence community do a comprehensive intelligence estimate on the “geopolitical and security implications of global climate change” comes as very old news to those of us who read Amory Lovins’ 1982 book Brittle Power.
Even more reprehensible, it was in 1976 that Lovins first warned us about the security risks of dependence on foreign oil, and suggested the alternative path that we are now tentatively beginning:
“The second path combines a prompt and serious commitment to efficient use of energy, rapid development of renewable energy sources matched in scale and in energy quality to end-use needs, and special transitional fossil-fuel technologies. This path, a whole greater than the sum of its parts, diverges radically from incremental past practices to pursue long-term goals.”
One can only guess how much of our current and future global warming woes, and the security issues they will raise, would have been avoided had people simply listened to Lovins 31 years ago…
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