Assessing Global Security Threats and Risks from Climate Change

Assessing Global Security Threats and Risks from Climate Change PAPER

Prepare: Before beginning work on this assignment,

• Watch Pankaj Ghemawat | TEDGlobal 2012: Actually, the World Isn’t Flat (Links to an external site.).
• Read Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community (Links to an external site.).
• Read A Shift in the International Security Environment: Potential Implications for Defense – Issues for Congress (Links to an external site.).

Write: Assess the global security threats and risks associated with climate change.

Using a minimum of five credible sources, complete the assignment:

• Describe the major security threats and risks posed by global climate change:
  • What are the economic threats and risks?
  • What are the sociopolitical threats and risks?
  • What are the environmental threats and risks?
  • What are the technological threats and risks?
• Identify the major actors involved in the challenge of global climate change:
  • Are states involved? Why or why not?
  • Are nongovernmental/business entities involved? Why or why not?
  • Are nonprofit organizations involved? Why or why not?
• Discuss how various theories would explain this global climate change:
  • How would a realist would explain this challenge?
  • How would a liberal would explain this challenge?
  • How would a constructivist explain this challenge?
• Identify a potential response to global climate change:
  • What organizations would be involved?
  • Would the response be primarily military- or nonmilitary-led and why?
  • What are two major costs and benefits of this response?

Assessing Global Security Threats and Risks from Climate Change PAPER

• Must be at least six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
• Must include conclusion paragraph that summarizes the argument and restates the thesis
• Must use at least 5 credible sources.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style
• Must include a references page that is formatted according to APA style

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Notes from feedback on how to approach this paper – please read! 

Bottom line: you need to tie the Security of the environment to a PURPOSE. We do not “secure” our homes as an end to itself. We secure our homes for peace of mind because it deters and/or prevents burglaries…or it reduces reaction time to fires. Environmental security is in the U.S. national interest because it can reduce global competition for scarce resources: war is not in anyone’s best interest. That is a simple example and I am sure you can find more. Make sure you consider the elephant in the room. ALL climate predictions are based on Models. All of them. The Farmer’s Almanac is based on a weather model. These models are only as good as the assumptions and historical data upon which they are built. The Earth is a few BILLION years old. Humans have been civilized for about 7,000 years. We do not even have good weather records that reach back 500 years. So, we have to make assumptions. The way around this is to include RISK and CONSEQUENCE. The negative consequence of doing nothing far outweighs taking action–this is the way to argue. In simpler terms: only the fool wishes it away. The model may not be totally accurate…but can we afford to mess around with this? Probably not.  This is why the Threat must be tied to the Vulnerability, which can allow you to calculate both RISK and CONSEQUENCE. As an example, we pursue a policy of halting the proliferation of nuclear technology. While there is no historical evidence of anyone actually using nuclear bombs (except the U.S.) we absolutely cannot afford to take the RISK, because the consequences are staggering. One wrong move and World War III happens. This is why that punk in North Korea gets a lot of attention. We cannot afford the risk.  You must bring the same passion to Environmental Security and Climate Change: explain why, even with limited historical data and potentially flawed models, we cannot afford to risk the consequences. Katrina would be a powerful example: the flawed and broken levees and the warnings were ignored for decades. When Katrina hit…it wrecked New Orleans and they still have yet to fully recover. THIS links directly to National Security. 

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Please incorporate some of these credible sources:

Elliot, L. (2015). Human security/environmental security. Contemporary Politics, 21(1), 11–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569775.2014.993905

Coats, D. R. (2018). Worldwide threat assessment of the US intelligence community . Retrieved from https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Testimonies/2018-ATA—Unclassified-SSCI.pdf

O’Rourke, R. (2018). A shift in the international security environment: Potential implications for defense – Issues for Congress. Retrieved from https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R43838.pdf

Ghemawat, P. (2012, June). Pankaj Ghemawat at TEDGlobal 2012: Actually, the world isn’t flat. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat#t-4382

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Global Security Threats and Risks from Climate Change

Introduction Climate change is a worldwide phenomenon that continues to threaten nations’ political, environmental, social, and economic | PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW AT writtask.com | to feel the growing and urgent threat to their national security because of climatic changes that have contributed to increased refugee flows, natural disasters, and conflicts resulting from the competition on vital resources like water and food (Clapper, 2018). Most importantly, scholars have acknowledged that climate change is a threat to national security that adversely affects military preparedness…