Canada's spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity.
Waves pound the shore on a closed section of Highway 207 in Lawrencetown, N.S., on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Canada's spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to Canada's security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to rising sea levels.
CSIS spells out several concerns presented by global warming, ranging from looming dangers to Arctic, coastal and border security to serious pressures on food and water supplies. “It’s not surprising that security agencies are starting to pay more attention to this because clearly climate change is starting to bite,” said Simon Dalby, a professor emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University who studies climate effects, environmental security and geopolitics.
Taking steps to lessen the severity of flood and weather risks may be impractical, and buying insurance or rebuilding after a calamity will simply be too expensive in some cases, the brief says. Freshwater resources will shrink due to environmental degradation and climate change pressures at a time when they are increasingly needed. “Water may transition from an unseen commodity to one of the world’s most vital and contested resources.”
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