Pentagons preparation for societal collapse due to climate change Aug. 11, 2014: The Pentagon knows that environmental, economic and other crises could provoke widespread public anger toward government and corporations in coming years. The revelations on the NSAs global surveillance programmes are just the latest indication that as business as usual creates instability at home and abroad, and as disillusionment with the status quo escalates The study also warned of a possible shortfall in global oil output by 2015. This is exactly what many petroleum scientists are predicting. The DoDs Quadrennial Defense Review also noted that climate change, energy security, and economic stability are inextricably linked. NSA Prism is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism. Increasingly concerned by the risk of civil unrest at home triggered by catastrophic events linked to climate change, energy shocks or economic crisis - or all three. Department of Defenses (DoD) Army Modernisation Strategy described the arrival of a new era of persistent conflict due to competition for depleting natural resources and overseas markets fuelling future resource wars over water, food and energy. The report predicted a resurgence of:... anti-government and radical ideologies that potentially threaten government stability. Hay, cowboys. What is radical? Saying we need to reduce population growth? The US Armys Strategic Studies Institute warned that a series of domestic crises could provoke large-scale civil unrest. The path to disruptive domestic shock could include traditional threats such as deployment of WMDs, alongside catastrophic natural and human disasters or pervasive public health emergencies coinciding with unforeseen economic collapse. Such crises could lead to loss of functioning political and legal order leading to purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency... DoD might be forced by circumstances to put its broad resources at the disposal of civil authorities to contain and reverse violent threats to domestic tranquility. Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance. A US Army-funded RAND Corp study called for a US force presence specifically to deal with civil unrest. Such fears were further solidified in a detailed 2010 study by the US Joint Forces Command - designed to inform joint concept development and experimentation throughout the Department of Defense - setting out the US militarys definitive vision for future trends and potential global threats. Climate change, the study said, would lead to increased risk of: Privatization of intelligence just happens to coincide with increasing domestic surveillance operations against political activists, The Ogallala Aquifer, which provides 27% of the irrigated land in this country, is very stressed from human impact. Three of the top grain producing states, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska each get 70 to 90% of their water from the Ogallala. dailykos/story/2014/08/11/1320245/-The-Pentagon-is-preparing-for-societal-collapse-due-to-Climate-Change
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