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https://thebulletin.org/2025/05/running-blind-the-silencing-and-censoring-of-environmental-threats-to-us-national-security/#post-heading
For more than half a century, US intelligence agencies and the armed forces
have analyzed threats to national security from a range of environmental
angles, including dependence on fossil fuels, competition for scarce water
resources and strategic minerals, and especially human-caused climate
change. These reports have been produced under presidential administrations
across the political spectrum.
Hundreds of assessments have come from, among others, White House National
Security Strategy reports, Department of Defense Quadrennial Defense
reviews, and studies from every branch of the military, all the war
colleges, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
Their consistent conclusions: Environmental factors pose direct, indirect,
and accelerating threats to US forces, operations, bases, and national
security interests.
Immediately after the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January
2025, his administration began purging these reports from the public
record: removing environmental security studies from government websites or
disabling those pages, cutting funding for environmental security studies,
and requiring military and intelligence communities to suppress and censor
references to climate change. Trump also rescinded Biden’s executive order
14008 that said, “climate considerations shall be an essential element of
United States foreign policy and national security.” This censorship was
not limited to military and intelligence work; the administration ordered
other federal agencies to “archive or unpublish” materials related to
climate change as well.
. . .
Denying or turning a blind eye to environmental security threats and
hamstringing intelligence agencies will only make the United States weaker
and more exposed to dangerous security surprises, military bases and
operations more vulnerable, and communities less prepared. Physical reality
will always trump political ideology.
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