Climate security

Climate change and national security

Climate change and its concomitant natural disasters pose a clear danger to national security in the present era of the hyper-utilisation of natural resources in the unbridled pursuit of industrial development.

The developed industrialised haves – having appropriated the fruits of development – are not ready to render a yeoman’s service to the environment through ‘carbon sacrifice’ despite offering anodyne sops to the agitated global community of environment conservationists. China, India, and several East Asian nations view climate control efforts through carbon emission caps as attempts by the developed north to stymie the growth of industrial aspirants. The devastating impact of global warming has already popped out of jeremiad fiction books and movies and assumed the center stage of human existence.