EcoRight Speaks podcast: Author Sherri Goodman on the link between climate change and national security
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- Published on October 29th, 2024
I love getting to feature another author and this week was particularly special because I have known Sherri Goodman for over 15 years and widely credit her with sparking the climate change interest of my old boss, Senator John Warner.
By Chelsea Henderson
EcoRight News/ RepublicEN
She talked to us about her recently published book, Threat Multiplier: Climate. Military Leadership & the Fight for Global Security.
Fun fact: Sherri coined the term threat multipler as it pertains to the risk climate change poses to our national security.
Listen below!
About “Threat Multiplier”:
Threat Multiplier takes us onto the battlefield and inside the Pentagon to show how the US military is confronting the biggest security risk in global history: climate change. More than thirty years ago, when Sherri Goodman became the Pentagon’s first Chief Environmental Officer, no one would have imagined this role for our armed forces.
Indeed, for much of the twentieth century, the Department of Defense (DOD) was better known for containing the Soviet nuclear threat than protecting the environment. And yet, today, the military has moved from an environmental laggard to a clean energy and climate leader, recognizing that a warming world exacerbates every threat—from hurricanes and forest fires, to competition for increasingly scarce food and water, to terrorism and power plays by Russia and China. The Pentagon now considers climate in war games, disaster relief planning, international diplomacy, and even the design of its own bases.
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(Re-posted from RepublicEN, an organization committed to growing U.S. conservative climate leadership.)
