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Opinion | The New York Times | Dot Earth | Andrew Revkin | August 09, 2009
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“The Pentagon is clearly taking the security risks related to human-driven climate change seriously. But do they hold up as justification for a bill capping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that would take decades to result in big emissions reductions?”“Another reality is that while worries about climate-related instability are rising, near-term concerns about energy insecurity are already a top-tier issue both here and in China, the two dominant contributors to the planet’s greenhouse-gas blanket.” China has made it clear lately that energy security there trumps climate concerns.
“[D]oes this security issue relate to the main provisions of the climate bill, or more to how much the Pentagon and State Department spend on preemptive risk reduction as opposed to war-fighting, on the scope and focus of American foreign aid, on building prosperity and resilience in Africa and South Asia? “
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