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The Pentagon is preparing for societal collapse due to Climate Change

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National Security and the threat of Climate Change prepared by CNA and released in 2007  finds that in the US, security threats will consist of an unimaginable need for worldwide humanitarian aid and increasing migrations to the US. This does not take into account that we will be dealing with our own catastrophic climate change impacts.and the scarcity of water.The path to "disruptive domestic shock" could include traditional threats such as deployment of WMDs, alongside "catastrophic natural and human disasters" or "pervasive public health emergencies" coinciding with "unforeseen economic collapse."Given this information the Department of Defense has created the Minerva Initiative that focuses on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy.  Read more about what the DOD is doing including surveillance  technology....

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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