When President Donald Trump became the commander-in-chief of the US Armed Forces, he accepted the responsibility to protect my country against enemies, foreign and domestic. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull shares the same responsibility to protect Australians.
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| A girl carries a toddler in Bangladesh. A one-metre rise in sea level would submerge one-fifth of the country, displacing 30 million people. |
Do these leaders understand that a key component of national security and global stability is climate change and the instability it is already causing around the world? The intersection of these two issues is already striking the world in unexpected ways, as climate change interacts with other pre-existing problems to become an accelerant to instability. The consequences include overwhelming humanitarian crises, forced migrations like those we are witnessing around the Mediterranean, and a breakdown in the human systems that make our societies work.
Read Sherri Goodman’s story in The Canberra Times - "Climate threatens Australia's security in unexpected ways.”
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