What is the most significant environmental change since the Rio Earth Summit?
Climate change has moved ahead much faster than one ever would have predicted ten years ago! What about the whole security aspects of this? Why do the military authorities not understand that the major threats are from environmental and ecological sources? Is it not time for the global military institutions to really start looking at spending their money on addressing these underlying causes that lead to war and social unrest? It is of course not just the military. The military has perhaps a rather restrained view of the world, since their job is just to do war or protect from war. I think that restrained vision should be changed, at the levels of Governments and Heads of State. We know that environmental security is intrinsically linked with effects that could lead to war. We have been talking about water wars for a long time, but today we are seeing the conflict even in the negotiations here, where people don’t want to agree on a trans-boundary river approach. That’s a clear signal t
