Retired Military Officials on Looming Water Crisis

clipped from blog.sciam.com Yet another report declares that global warming is a "serious threat to America's national security." written by six retired admirals and five retired generals unique in its focus on water shortages "Weakened and failing governments, with an already thin margin for survival, foster the conditions for internal conflicts, extremism and movement toward increased authoritarianism and radical ideologies," the report says. "The U.S. will be drawn more frequently into these situations." "We will pay for this one way or another," writes Zinni, former commander of U.S. Central Command. "We will pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today, and we'll have to take an economic hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll."