Climate Security
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Climate impacts are increasingly being viewed through the lens of security, with the expectation that climate change will result in instability and conflict. In practice, this turns the victims of climate change into 'threats', to be controlled by military force, police repression and policies that entrench corporate control at a cost to human rights and civil liberties. TNI started exploring this work in 2011, developing a book published in November 2015, The Secure and the Dispossessed - How the Military and Corporations are shaping a climate-changed world
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State of the World 2022 : Online global conference
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The armed lifeboat: the dangers of militarising climate adaptation
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Climate Collateral How military spending accelerates climate breakdown
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Global Climate Wall How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action
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Primer on climate security The dangers of militarising the climate crisis
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Defying Dystopia: Building the climate future we need
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The elephant in Paris – the military and greenhouse gas emissions
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Climate Collateral How military spending accelerates climate breakdown
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Global Climate Wall How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action
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Primer on climate security The dangers of militarising the climate crisis
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The Secure and the Dispossessed How the military and the corporations are shaping a climate-changed world
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The Secure and the Dispossessed
How the military and the corporations are shaping a climate-changed world
This agenda-setting book examines the military and corporations' strategies in the context of climate change to secure wealth for those who have it while further dispossessing those who will be most affected by climate change.
