“Militaries are great planning organizations, we need to utilize that great planning capability to get further ahead of the climate threat than we have.”
“For the military, it’s very important to understand the root causes of a conflict and not deal with the symptoms alone,” he said. “The more that you can address the [root causes], the less you have to fight over it, and it saves lives.”
Military forces can also reduce the negative impacts they have on communities, often without realizing it. In Mali, Middendorp said United Nations missions digging wells to get water for troops were draining the resource from nearby villages. When it became apparent this was creating animosity with the very people the mission was trying to help, water reuse and purification mechanisms were brought in to reduce the strain on groundwater.
He added that defense forces have a role to play in considering how their operations use local resources, exacerbating tensions such as sparking a jump in fuel prices in remote locations or putting a strain on water during a drought. But both Goodman and Middendorp acknowledged that not all militaries are willing to discuss climate change because of the political debate.in his address despite the issue being the focus of the discussion.
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