ASP’s CEO Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, USMC (Ret.) was quoted in an article in Breaking Energy about the connection between climate change and national security. BGen Cheney participated in a panel event in New York in July, discussing how the military is dealing with the burden of climate change. From the article:

Representing the nonprofit American Security Project, Brigadier General (Ret) Steven Cheney made the point that climate change risk is a national security issue. Upon taking charge of the US Marine training facility at Paris Island in 1999, his processor told him, “you have a big problem and it’s hurricanes.” Soon after, Hurricane Floyd barreled into the coast forcing mass evacuations at the base.

Cheney cited several additional examples of weather events impacting national security, including how forest fires in Russia decimated wheat crops, causing a food price increase that contributed to the initial Arab Spring demonstrations. Hurricane Sandy relief was also a “huge military operation,” he said.

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