From obscurity to action: Why Canada must tackle the security dimensions of climate change
Margaret Purdy, Leanne Smythe, Liu Scholars Alumni, UBC
June 29, 2010
Source: International Journal
Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war.
This was the consensus conclusion of the first international conference on climate change and security—held in Toronto in 1988 and attended by scientists and policymakers from about 50 countries, including Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. In the 22 years since that groundbreaking event, the climate change-security nexus has not been discussed, debated, or analyzed in any serious, sustained, or comprehensive way in Canada. Today, the security implications of climate change are obscure, almost invisible, to Canadians.
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