Climate change is a security issue.

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On the point: Climate change will cause immense damage

Climate change will cause a lot more damage and loss of life than terrorism has. The consequences will be more like a war and it should be treated as such. Making climate change a security issue immediately pushes it up the agenda in the eyes of many policymakers, security is something that needs to be delt with in a different manner to other political issues.

Just because climate change causes more damage than some security issues does not make it a security issue. No one regards road deaths as a security issue, but it undoubtedly causes more deaths in the west than terrorism does.

Yes, because... Climate change will cause immense damage

 

No, because...

Climate change will cause a lot more damage and loss of life than terrorism has. The consequences will be more like a war and it should be treated as such. Making climate change a security issue immediately pushes it up the agenda in the eyes of many policymakers, security is something that needs to be delt with in a different manner to other political issues.

 

Just because climate change causes more damage than some security issues does not make it a security issue. No one regards road deaths as a security issue, but it undoubtedly causes more deaths in the west than terrorism does.