The paradox of climate security

If there's anything that's going to shatter national borders and force humanity to reorganize itself, it's climate change.

But as long as we look at this looming planetary unraveling from within the cage of nationalism -- especially "white nationalism," which quietly remains the full meaning of the term -- we simply see the natural world as another potential enemy: a threat to "national security."

This, of course, is the limit of any discussion about climate change in the limited world of government, where thinking does not transcend the role of the Defense Department in our points out, one of the unnoticed provisions of the recently passed Act of 2020, which boosted the Defense budget this year to $738 billion, is the creation of something called the "Climate Security Advisory Council," which defines "climate security" as a matter of protecting "the national security of the United States" and "the military, political, or economic interests of allies and partners of the United States."