NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg [pictured] on Friday said the alliance must focus on climate change even as it contends with fortifying its defenses against aggression from the Kremlin.
At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Dubai, Mr. Stoltenberg said a clear link exists between a nation’s security and climate change, which he called a “crisis multiplier.” [emphasis, links added]
“It forces people to move. Migratory flows are increasing because of climate change. But it also increases competition for scarce resources,” Mr. Stoltenberg said. “In that way, climate change is actually fueling conflict, and conflict matters for NATO and for our security.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to order troops across the border into Ukraine last year has prompted many leaders to call it the most dire threat to NATO since the end of the Cold War.
Before the invasion, several leaders of NATO states argued that buying fuel from Moscow was purely a commercial decision and shouldn’t be politicized, Mr. Stoltenberg reminded conference attendees.
“Now they all realize that, of course, to be so dependent on Russian gas was a political decision,” he said. “It was about our security because Russia used gas as a tool to try to coerce us after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.”
While NATO members must develop new and renewable energy sources, the secretary-general said only a handful of countries control the technology and raw materials needed for critical components like solar panels and batteries.
“We shouldn’t make the same mistake, being too dependent on one or two unreliable suppliers of critical commodities (and) raw materials when we make the energy transition,” he said.
NATO also needs to do its part by reducing emissions from the military sector, Mr. Stoltenberg said.
“If you look at the big battle tanks and the big battleships and fighter jets, they are very advanced and great in many ways. But, they’re not very environmentally friendly,” he said. “They pollute a lot, so we need to get down the emissions.”
Mr. Stoltenberg predicted that NATO would achieve net zero, when emissions of carbon dioxide due to human activity and removal of the gases are in balance, by 2050.
“In the future, the most effective engines, the most effective vehicles (and) planes will be the green ones,” he said. “So to ensure that we are ahead of the curve, we also need to ensure that the military is moving toward a more green and sustainable technological solution.”
Read more at the Washington Times
So when’s this Pinhead going to give up al his luxuries and live in a tent? Live like Washingtons men did at Valley Forge
The DoD, the Navy, the Pentagon and the Joint Chief of Staff have all come out to say that climate change is a threat multiplier.
But what would they know?
BTW, 2023 is a sure bet to be the hottest year in the instrumental record.
“But what would they know?”
They know what the White House expects to hear from them. Words are cheap.
What a truly ignorant and moronic comment. These position statements made by our own military services were before Biden was president. In fact, the Navy has long been designing and building a whole new class of ships to be used in the far north because the Arctic ice melt has created a new theatre of war.
BTW, 17 November 2023 was the first day in which the global temperature exceeded 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
Drewski, you are using a standard liberal argument of deferral to authority. I first encountered this when a processor told me I should support universal health insurance because all of the authors publishing in public health journals supported it. Who supports what in not relevant, but it is the integrity of the issues. One issue mentioned is migration. However, when migration is blamed on climate change, it is often from areas that have had abundant crops. One factor in the military supporting action on climate change is that liberals have been selected for the top brass. The fact that there have been many, many years of the military using affirmative action as one criterion for promotions shows this. By the way, some very capable young have decided not to join the military for that reason.
In focusing on climate change, real problems don’t get enough attention, such as the potential threat from China.
Action on climate change reduces the energy available. It might not lead to a conflict today, but has done so in the past. Japan went to war with the US because we cut off their supply of oil.
Blah blah blah
I provide statements from our own military – tasked to protecting our nation – showin that THEY consider climate change is a threat multiplier based onbtheir own independent studies and analysis and you talk about “liberals deferring to authority”.
Apparently your “authority” is this tabloid of non-scientists and what is written on the back of cereal boxes.
BTW, The past 3 months all had the greatest spike in temperatures (deviation from the norm) in the instrumental record.
The only honest connection between the extreme unlawful immigration and “climate change” is that corrupt officials who believe in “climate change” are also encouraging massive unlawful immigration.
These people are literally insane and dangerous. It seems like every decision they make actually causes conflict. Climate change is a hoax and NATO is a joke.
Does Stoogenberg know about
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You should make a reaction emjoi for every story. What next a green friendly war. Kinder guns? Guns that dont discriminate? lol
Anybody that wants their son or daughter killed in a tank that’s sitting idly recharging its batteries in the face of an enemy charge of fossil-fueled high performance tanks, please raise your hands.
Oh and are we going to have zero emission guns, bombs and missiles that destroy targets without generating smoke and fire ??
This guy should be the mayor of Fantasy Land.