CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Abstract
Weather-related events have an enormous impact on society, since they influence food supply, conditions in cities and communities, as well as access to clean water and energy. There is substantial evidence to indicate that significant global warming will occur during the coming decades. We are already facing weather related disasters, more hurricanes, monsoons, floods and dry spells in regions around the world. Further climate change and its follow-on effects pose a severe risk to political, economic, and social stability. The aggregate effects of climate change at global and regional levels will be negative, especially in the context of multiple stresses, and will lead us to an increasingly disorderly and potentially violent world. That environmental problems can become security problems is now well recognised in policy. Following this definition of security, climate change is a security issue for states, communities and individuals. It is a problem that is complex in origin and has uncertain impact. Climate change is becoming the most serious form of environmental change and the most serious security problem that Slovenia faces. The potential impact of climate change on Slovenia different systems and sectors must be considered as a national security issue as soon as possible.
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