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"It has been three years since the Albanese government received a report by the
Office of National Intelligence looking at how the climate crisis is likely to
fuel national security threats, but we still don’t know what the report says.
It was deemed classified – too sensitive, apparently, for even a redacted
version to be made available for public discussion.
Some independent MPs were briefed on it in late 2024 after they raised
concerns. Senator David Pocock told the
Saturday Paper the report was
“frankly terrifying” and that “we’re woefully unprepared for what’s coming”.
Beyond that, little is known about its contents other than what can be gleaned
from a separate national climate risk assessment that last year warned of
potential cascading economic shocks from supply chain disruptions, goods
shortages and failing energy systems.
That’s hard for many people to get their heads around, but there is a taste of
it in the real-time fallout from the illegal air war in the Middle East,
launched on a shifting and often incoherent rationale.
The first focus in any discussion about war should be on the human cost, as
people across a list of countries are killed and maimed. That impact is
devastating and ongoing.
But a significant secondary issue is that this is not a great time in history
to be dependent on the global fossil fuel trade. And that, more than ever,
going big on renewable energy makes sense, financially and from a national
security perspective."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
