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Biden Just Linked Climate and Security. Next Comes Military Money
Despite the flood of new resources, climate activists remain wary.
Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg
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With warming temperature playing a role in everything from mass migrations (see Central America and the U.S. southern border) to civil war (see Syria), climate change has been a factor in national security for decades.
This week the U.S. finally got with the program. Among the many climate-related executive orders President Joe Biden signed on Wednesday was one directing the federal government to make climate change an integral part of its foreign and national security policy.