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:: Monday, February 23, 2004 ::

Your long-range forecast: widely scattered food shortages, chance of global anarchy
Quick! Somebody cue REM:

That's great, it starts with an earthquake/birds and snakes, an aeroplane/Lenny Bruce is not afraid...

A secret Pentagon report, covered up for about four months by top-level Defense Department officials, warns that climate change "may lead to global catastrophe costing millions of lives and is a far greater threat than terrorism."

According to this report (via MetaFilter): "The Pentagon report, commissioned by Andrew Marshall, predicts that 'abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies.' ... The report, quoted in the paper (The Observer), concluded: 'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life.... Once again, warfare would define human life.'"

The report's authors -- Peter Schwartz, a CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and Doug Randall of Global Business Network based in California -- said climate change should be considered "immediately" as a top political and military issue. It "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US national security concern", they were quoted as saying.

Happy Monday, everybody.

:: Andrew 09:25 + ::
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