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The Security Threat that Binds Us: The Unraveling of Ecological and Natural Security and What the United States Can Do About It

The Security Threat that Binds Us: The Unraveling of Ecological and Natural Security and What the United States Can Do About It

Author(s): Rod Schoonover , Christine Cavallo , Isabella Caltabiano

Publication Date: 2021

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Global ecological disruption is arguably the 21st Century’s most underappreciated security threat. Human societies are producing rapid, novel, and foundational changes across multiple Earth systems with concomitant—and sometimes severe—consequences for people, societies, and security worldwide. These changes are significant and globally consequential, and include the transformation of the atmosphere’s composition, overloaded and depleted soils, toxified and acidified oceans, and reconfigured freshwater systems.

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