Meet Sherri Goodman, who in two words made the military care about climate change

The Buzzfeed story lead says it all: “Meet the woman whose two-word catchphrase made the military care about climate”. 

That woman is Sherri Goodman, and she will be in Australia in early April. And the film about climate change and the military will be on ABC TV's 4 Corners next Monday night. 

The national security dimension of climate change receives little attention in Australia, but is the subject of intense focus overseas, particularly in the United States. Climate change interacts with other pre-existing problems to become an accelerant to instability in unexpected ways. Scarce resources, growing water scarcity, declining crop yields, rising food prices, extreme weather events and health impacts become catalysts for instability and conflict, especially in Asia. This has profound implications for Australia, economically and socially, quite apart from the climate change impact on Australia itself.

Read the Climate Code Red story - “Meet Sherri Goodman, who in two words made the military care about climate change.”