Blog Action Day 2009: Hunger and Climate Change
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by David Lee
It’s Blog Action Day 2009, a day when the bloggers unite online for a cause. It’s sort of like USA for Africa’s “We are the World,” except with 50% less singing, 100% more typing, and 23% more Hall and Oates (at least in my case). This year, the cause is climate change, which makes Blog Action Day sort of like “blogosphere for the atmosphere.”
The topic got me thinking to 2003 when the Pentagon was asked what they thought was the biggest threat to national security. The Pentagon didn’t say terrorism. They didn’t say banking, national health care or reality shows
They said climate change.
That’s right. The Pentagon, still recovering after 9/11, in a time when the correct answer to any question was global terrorism, said the greatest risk to U.S. national security was climate change.
Not because we would get a little hot, or that Al Gore would win the Nobel Peace Prize, but because climate change would lead to world-wide hunger, food insecurity and famine, which would foment political instability and war.
