So, if your boss says “hey, you need to believe in anthropogenic climate change, and make plans for it, and talk about it, and tell everyone under you they have to be a part of this”, what do you do? You can either get onboard or leave, right?
Why You Won’t Hear the Military Arguing About Climate Change
Today, the U.S. military is confronting a new enemy: climate change.
Before Hurricane Helene devastated the Southeast last month, more than 5,900 National Guard members were called up to help prepare; after the storm, the Pentagon sent active-duty forces to assist with road clearing and logistical support. In June, when Hurricane Beryl spiraled through the Caribbean before making its U.S. landfall, Texas and Vermont National Guard units supported disaster response efforts, working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide meals and water as well as help with search-and-rescue efforts. Already, U.S. forces have prepared personnel and resources to mobilize for support in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.
You mean like during every natural disaster? The US Military deployed to help out after the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, both to Texas and Puerto Rico. They helped out after the great Chicago fire, the massive earthquakes in the 1860s in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, as well as the big Alaska, San Francisco (multiple times), and LA earthquakes. After Mount St. Helen’s went boom.
As some politicians continue to argue about the economic impacts of climate legislation or question the imminent nature of climate threats — in September former President Trump called climate change a “scam” — the U.S. military has reorganized itself around the knowledge that climate change poses an unprecedented risk to national security. It has integrated climate preparedness into many dimensions of planning and operations. This includes not just deployments for humanitarian assistance and disaster response, but also gaming out the geostrategic impacts of the evolving climate, making adaptations to military training, building resilience into installations and shifting to alternative energy sources to improve military effectiveness.
In most parts of the government, the oscillation of electoral politics has resulted in federal climate strategies hitting endless stops and starts. The U.S. military, though, is less subject to this whiplash, given historic bipartisan support for military readiness. As a result, it has become an example of the steady progress that can occur when the U.S. government takes climate change seriously and devotes resources to mitigating risk — rather than ignoring it at a deadly cost. Today, some of the nation’s most cutting-edge climate innovations exist on military properties, including smart grids fitted with energy storage systems and the use of blended biofuels to power ships and aircraft.
This military?
OMG HAHAHA ????????????
Trump just played this epic clip of our old military vs our new woke military: pic.twitter.com/RlLdutL2jc
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 9, 2024
Eight years of Obama. Four years of Biden-Harris. More and more high ranking wackjobs more suited to working for the Peace Corps than a strong military tasked with protecting the United States, so, of course these insane people will listen to their higher ups, and then pass the crazy downstream.
The United States of America military is so strong they’re kicking the asses of Putin, Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah by remote f’king control!
The increasingly sick Republicun Party used to support the military of the United States of America. It’s sad to see the once useful GOP collapse under the spell of The Don. Sad.
Mr Teach typed: the massive earthquakes in the 1860s in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
The massive earthquakes (7-8 Richter) were in 1811 and 1812, not the 1860s. The earthquakes affected areas of SE Missouri, W Kentucky, SW Illinois and W Tennessee.
They are? And here I was told we are NOT AT WAR! So it actually is that the democommies ONCE AGAIN LIED to us.
The democrat party increasingly taken over by the communists has decided to make war by political policy not by military threat. As usual the democommies are afraid to actually fight a war they rather pick around the edges.
If The Don goes to war he won’t hide it like you do and you’ll know it by the blood of our enemies. Beside, you guys are too busy making civil war against us to actually engage in a real fight. You are all cowards. Bone spur Dowd.
L.G.B.,
Waah!!! Poor baby. Did him get his widdle feewings hurt? LOL
You may not have noticed, but the nature of war has changed. It’s less about men with carbines and more about surveillane, missiles and bombs. The US MIC is good at surveillance, missiles and bombs.
Without US support military, Israel would not exist. Without NATO and US military support, Ukraine would be the newest Russia oblast. Few of our brave men and women are at risk.