U.S. military bases eyed as ‘green job’ incubators

Another CAP paper called for “a major shift of resources from the military budget to sustainable energy.”

 

A separate CAP-endorsed paper suggested massive military slashes and called for any unused military installations to be converted into “green job” incubators.

 

O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, made his comments about ISIS and “global warming” on Monday to Bloomberg News.

 

“One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria and the rise of ISIS,” O’Malley said, “was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence.”

 

Some conservative news outlets pointed out President Obama told U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduates to be prepared for a shift in military strategy that would include a fight against global warming, because weather patterns figure into trends toward violence.

 

Missing from the conversation, however, is the genesis of the thinking and how it already has affected Obama’s defense agenda.

 

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