Pentagon Aknowledges Global Climate Change & End of Civilization

From an old UK Guardian story:

"Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

I'm not even going to pretend we can or will try to changes our ways.

But dear reader I give you a short shopping list:

A small garden to grow and can your own food.

A well to water your garden, bathe, and drink from.

And finally, a rifle to defend your garden and well, since The Pentagon, not exactly a liberal environmentalist group, says:



"By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated."