All Hell Breaking Loose, Michael T. Klare
All Hell Breaking Loose, Michael T. Klare
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All Hell Breaking Loose
The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change

Author: Michael T. Klare

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 7 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/12/2019


Synopsis

All Hell Breaking Loose is an eye-opening examination of climate change from the perspective of the U.S. military.

The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change—still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet of all the major institutions in American society, none take climate change as seriously as the U.S. military. Both as participants in climate-triggered conflicts abroad, and as first responders to hurricanes and other disasters on American soil, the armed services are already confronting the impacts of global warming. The military now regards climate change as one of the top threats to American national security—and is busy developing strategies to cope with it.

Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, renowned security expert Michael Klare shows that the U.S. military sees the climate threat as imperiling the country on several fronts at once. Droughts and food shortages are stoking conflicts in ethnically divided nations, with “climate refugees” producing worldwide havoc. Pandemics and other humanitarian disasters will increasingly require extensive military involvement. The melting Arctic is creating new seaways to defend. And rising seas threaten American cities and military bases themselves.

While others still debate the causes of global warming, the Pentagon is intensely focused on its effects. Its response makes it clear that where it counts, the immense impact of climate change is not in doubt.

About Michael T. Klare

Michael T. Klare is the author of more than fifteen books, including Resource Wars and Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet. A contributor to Current History, Foreign Affairs, and the Los Angeles Times, he is the defense correspondent for The Nation and the director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on July 04, 2020

Somber, anxiety-inducing stuff (if you care about things like national defense, the future of the planet, crisis management, potential causes of major power warfare, climate change, starvation and food (and water) shortages, mass displacement and refugee migration, etc.) In other words, this isn't l......more

Goodreads review by David on August 25, 2019

Reporters, researchers and other scribes have long noted the biggest block of attendees at environmental conferences have been military. If it’s environmental, they want to know about it. In Michael Klare’s All Hell Breaking Loose, we learn the finer points of why. The armed forces need to be prepare......more

Goodreads review by Karel on June 19, 2021

Climate Crisis is a massive "threat multiplier" for the DoD, and will generate specific conflict scenarios. In early 2019, Klare already predicted pandemics as threatening the global transportation system on while our key allies (and everyone's prosperity) depends, and noted how much Obama's DoD had......more

Goodreads review by Erik on November 05, 2020

The Pentagon is a trusted authority on war and on climate’s impact on war. Unlike other parts of the government guided by wishful thinking and trying to protect their political supporters among oil companies, free market think tanks and the Republican establishment, the armed services have to pay at......more

Goodreads review by Miguel on February 15, 2020

It would be of some solace to many in the US to know that the government hasn’t completely given up on worrying about human induced climate change in the know-nothing Trump administration, and that further it’s our own military who are taking the lead in both planning for and adapting to the large c......more