“But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.” NeedsFacesEnergyStrongNationsChallengesSecurityIndiaInstitutionsClimateClimate ChangeChinaAustraliaStabilityCrucialFood SecurityRise Of China Author:Kevin Rudd
“If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.” IfsProblemWaterNaturalLandSecurityHabitConflictMajorsMassResourcesNegativeCrisisClimateClimate ChangeProductionsFarmsRefugeeRecipesScarceNatural ResourcesDisruptionMigrationRefugee CrisisFood ProductionScarce Resources Author:Michael Franti
“Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.” SecuritySeriousThreatClimateClimate Change Author:Barack Obama
“Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.” AchieveSecurityPolicyPicksClimateCorePaceForeign Policy Author:Margaret Beckett
“Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives - agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate.” IfsMenWayNeedsValuesPassionChallengesStepsSecurityProduceCrossesClimatePatternsCurrentsFamiliarBridgesRevolutionaryShakesPassiveNew WaysDiscontentPrevailingAffirmativeOrganizerRules For RadicalsAgitateDisenchantment Author:Saul Alinsky
“Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.” PeopleProblemFightingEnergyGrowthWaterPovertyEconomicSecurityPlanetsSolutionsEmpowermentClimateClimate ChangeSavingOur PlanetEconomic GrowthLiftingAdvancingDotsShortageScarcityHealth FoodFood SecurityGlobal PovertyGlobal HealthEconomic EmpowermentSolutions To PovertyEconomic Climate Author:Ban Ki-moon
“Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.” IfsMenWayMadeEnergyAcceptingSecurityWindTheoryClimateClimate ChangeRottenEmissionsCo2TurbinesEnergy SecurityWind TurbinesCo2 Emissions Author:Roger Helmer
“Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country.” CountryMistakeRiskSecurityMilitarySeriousImpactThreatClimateClimate ChangeOur CountryNational Security Author:Barack Obama
“Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.” PeopleShouldStatesProblemRealityPoliticalPoliticsNatureCommunityLeadershipJusticeAnswersDemocracyFocusFailingSecurityPolicySeriousWeaponsEthicsStrategyClimateHuman RightsExtremesTerrorismNuclearWeatherIdeologyForeign PolicyNuclear WeaponsFloodNational SecurityDiplomacyDisruptionDroughtInstabilityGood QuestionsExtreme WeatherPolitical Instability Author:Van Jones
“The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.” WholeProblemPoliticalSocialPovertyIssuesEnvironmentEconomicSecurityBuildingKeysDevelopmentClimateEnvironmentalBlockAddressesStabilitySustainabilitySocial SecuritySustainable DevelopmentBuilding BlocksPeace And Security Author:Ban Ki-moon
“The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.” NeedsYearsLongStatesProblemRunningCausesCompanyShareSecurityCrisisTradeDollarsClimateFinancialConnectedOilBillionsAbsurdBudgetsUsaPersistNational SecurityDeficitDependencyPersianOil CompaniesForeign OilBudget DeficitPersian Gulf Author:Al Gore
“The sun-belt and the technology belt can become very powerful when they begin to understand themselves as a community: a community of energy, water and climate security; a community for their common future.” EnergyPeaceWaterCommunityPowerfulCommonTechnologySunSecurityClimateBeltsVery Powerful Author:Prince Hassan bin Talal
“The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.” WorldShouldCountryChoicesChallengesSecurityShapesIndiaClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismOur CountryCooperationGovernanceConfrontingCyberCyber Security Author:Narendra Modi
“The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.” WayTodayFacesSecurityCapacityThreatProfoundClimateClimate ChangeGlobal Warming Author:William J. Clinton
“Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.” FoundForceWaterDecisionPovertyFourRiskSecurityDiseaseHundredUniversalThreatClimateClimate ChangeIncludingTerrorismInequalityAddressesMakersDiverseFamineLoomingDecision MakersFresh Water Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson
“Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.” TermChallengesSecurityDown AndImpactClimateClimate ChangeNational Security Author:Wesley K. Wark
“Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare.” IfsWellsGrowingSecurityMajorsImpactClimateClimate ChangeIncomeInequalityWelfareAddressesGovernanceBreakdownIncome InequalityDisadvantagedPublic Welfare Author:Wesley K. Wark
“I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldDifferentEnergyGivenNumbersHalfSecurityClimateClimate ChangeSpendingBillionsImperatives Author:Bill Gates
“We must prepare for a changing climate by incorporating climate preparedness into every aspect of our planning - for food, water, health, energy, even national security. We must reduce our emissions to prevent even more dangerous change.” EnergyWaterSecurityDangerousAspectClimatePlanningNational SecurityEmissionsPreparednessIncorporating Author:Katharine Hayhoe
“Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change.” YearsHardStatesPastChallengesUnitedLeaderPrinciplesUnited StatesEconomicSecurityParticularShapesInnovationSouthClimateClimate ChangeProsperityEightEastCaliforniaRegionsPartnershipIntegrationAsiaPromotingSummitStrategicOver The PastEast AsiaGlobal HealthEconomic IntegrationAsean Author:Barack Obama
“I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.” MatterJobsMovingEnergyEconomicSecurityDutyIndependenceCleanClimateArguingPatrioticNational SecurityClean EnergyEconomic SecurityEnergy IndependenceEnergy Security Author:Van Jones
“[Barack] Obama's out there saying it's the number one national security threat [climate change], and he's got his Joint Chiefs of Staff out there planning American battles, military engagements on that basis.” NumbersSecurityMilitaryBattleBasesThreatClimateClimate ChangePlanningChiefsBarackEngagementStaffNational SecurityJointsChief Of Staff Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation.” WorldNeedsPrinciplesSecurityWillingBecomingEuropeThreatClimateClimate ChangeProsperityFocusedAround The WorldCooperationUrgentUnprecedentedBecoming MoreAngela Author:Barack Obama
“Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.” PeopleHardCarePoliticalUnderstandingTermStudySecurityPolicyFieldsHugeAspectClimateClimate ChangeForeign PolicyWho CaresPolitical ScienceFood Security Author:Madeleine Albright
“Of course the issue of ending war, and creating prosperity; they're overarching issues all the time. But right now, the challenge to this generation I believe is the climate crisis. It's a national security issue, it's a health issue in terms of clean air, it's a competitiveness issue in terms of innovation and it's a moral issue to preserve the planet for the next generation.” BelieveWarCoursesNextI BelieveTermChallengesMoralIssuesGenerationsAirSecurityPlanetsRight NowCreatingInnovationCrisisCleanClimateProsperityPreservesNational SecurityNext GenerationThis GenerationCompetitivenessMoral IssuesHealth IssuesClean Air Author:Nancy Pelosi