Resources Related to Climate Change
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All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change by Michael T. Klare
Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, renowned security expert Michael T. Klare shows how the U.S. military sees the climate threat as imperiling the country on several fronts at once. Droughts and food shortages stoke conflicts in ethnically divided nations, with “climate refugee” migration creating havoc. Pandemics and other humanitarian disasters will increasingly require extensive military involvement. The melting Arctic is creating new seaways to defend, and rising seas threaten American cities and military installations.
Army Climate Resilience Handbook
This memo is consistent with Department of Defense guidance per 10 USC § 2864 (Master plans for major military installations, April 2020). To address these risks and threats, the Army Climate Resilience Handbook (ACRH) takes Army planners through the process to systematically assess climate hazard exposure risk and incorporate this knowledge and data into existing installation planning processes such as master plans.
Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future (MIT Press), by Saul Griffith
In Electrify, Saul lays out a detailed blueprint — optimistic but feasible — for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. It is the Rewiring America plan: electrify everything. Saul explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future.
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Rewiring America founder Saul Griffith has a plan to rapidly electrify the country, create 25 million jobs and avoid the climate disaster. This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE Electrify, May 25-26, 2021. Learn more about the event here.
Dr. Andy Nelson, director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory joins ERDC Live to discuss climate change solution and energy resiliency.