US Navy Hosts Climate Change War Game – Are you interested in that?

Essay by Eric Worrall

The US Navy is hosting an open source tabletop war game, to model how climate change could affect future conflicts.

Navy Holding War Game Climate Change

Via: Mallory Shelbourne
June 21, 2022 4:30 pm

The Navy next week will host an open-source board battle game to test how climate change might affect a future conflict, a service official said today. now.

The half-day exercise will involve individuals from Capitol Hill, the Department of Defense, the defense industry, consulting agencies and academia, the assistant secretary of the Navy for energy, installations, and installations. location and environment Meredith Berger told reporters during the Defense Writers Group breakfast.

The purpose of the June 29 exercise is “to come together to really think about and experience what it means to operate in a climate-affected environment,” Berger said.

“We’re going to create the right amount of stress in a very responsible way to see how hard it is to make these choices and stay there. [are] There are unintended consequences and there are costs and impacts and all kinds of interventional circumstances that we need to think from each other’s point of view,” she added.

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“By 2030, poorer countries and poorer populations are most adversely affected and rentals can cope with the worst impacts of climate change. Migration is increasing in frequency and scale as the poor move to the peri-urban areas,” the document reads. “Floods of people of different religions, ethnicities, tribes, family systems and beliefs create new tensions. Moreover, the increase in migration begins to overload the social welfare infrastructure in places that already struggle to cope with social problems”.

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Each military service now has a sustainability director, Berger said, in an effort to follow President Joe Biden’s executive order on sustainability. That position is held by each civilian head of each energy, installation and environmental services agency.

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Read more: https://news.usni.org/2022/06/21/navy-holding-climate-change-wargame

If the US Navy considers climate change likely to present security threats, such as when “the influx of people of different religions, ethnicities, tribes, family systems, and beliefs creates new tensions,” could the US anticipate this climate threat by securing a vulnerable border with walls?