Speaking at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said the climate change is a “primary” national security threat to the United States.
“The Pentagon has already said that climate change is a primary national security threat that we’re going to face, and we are working with the Department of Defense to start preparing for that and mitigating for that,” Obama said. “And a lot of our international policy and national security policy is centered around the very real concerns that that’s going to raise.”
In the same presentation, Obama said that the planet is warming and that this is having an impact on human health.
“And what we know is that the temperature of the planet is rising,” said Obama. “And we know that in addition to the adverse impacts that may have when it comes to more frequent hurricanes, or more powerful storms, or increased flooding, we also know that it has an impact on public health.”
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