Climate security

Here’s What the Experts Make of Trump Removing Climate Change from the National Security Strategy

The Trump administration recently announced an update to the National Security Strategy (NSS) that removed climate change from the list of threats. The document instead focuses on threats from economic competition and border security, and emphasizes that fossil fuels will be necessary in developing countries to “power their economies and lift their people out of poverty.”

Unfortunately, this move did not surprise experts.

“The Trump Administration’s failure to list climate change as a national security risk is consistent with its general tendency to dismiss climate change as a problem,” said David Konisky, Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, to Futurism. Listening to Trump discuss climate change over the course of his campaign, often with scorn and ridicule, has worried environmental advocates long before the first votes were cast in 2016.