Mattis: Climate change is a national security threat enabling terrorist recruitment
General James Mattis · The military’s net-zero aspirations · Feb 23, 2022 · at 1:06
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Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis outlines why the defense establishment views climate change as a destabilizing national security issue.
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“It's a national security issue because when people have to leave devastated areas and move elsewhere, the refugee flows, the all the humanitarian effort that goes into it, the willingness of some people to take advantage of those people terrorists in particular and recruit from them because they're, they feel a loss of hope. It's a reality we're going to have to deal with.”
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