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Ultimate Security

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Security-Environmental-Political-Stability/dp/1559634995/

Paperback: 308 pages

Publisher: Island Press (October 1996)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1559634995

ISBN-13: 978-1559634991

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In the mid 1980s your GreenPolicy siterunner studied with Robert Heilbroner at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in NY. Here Professor Heilbroner speaks of "Environmental Security" by Norman Myers:

"Norman Myers seems to me to be closer to the realities of the global environmental problem than anyone else. He has been everywhere. He has seen everything. He is an encyclopedia of astonishing facts, many of them pessimistic. He is simultaneously a source of infectious hopefulness. He sees the environmental prospect in its full awesome dimensions. He sees, as well, what we can do as individuals. I do not see how anyone can claim to be informed about what is probably humanity's single most important problem without having read 'Ultimate Security' -- Robert Heilbroner

Again, thinking of how respective ideas are passed from one generation to the next ...

As the Environmental movement matures and looks to security as planet citizens.

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ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY: WHAT'S NEW AND DIFFERENT?

by Norman Myers -- http://www.envirosecurity.org/conference/working/newanddifferent.pdf

"Few threats to peace and survival of the human community are greater than those posed by the prospects of cumulative and irreversible degradation of the biosphere on which human life depends. True security cannot be achieved by mounting buildup of weapons (defence in a narrow sense), but only by providing basic conditions for solving non-military problems which threaten them. Our survival depends not only on military balance, but on global cooperation to ensure a sustainable environment."

• Envirosecurity (As GreenPolicy sees "Envirosecurity" / *Environmental Security + *Environmental Security, National Security > Global Security)

From Publishers Weekly

Just as the Cold War has dominated the last four decades, environmental conflicts will become the "principle threat to security and peace" in the years ahead, argues Myers ( Future Worlds ). In a provocative description of the new concept of environmental security, which he helped establish, the author offers much evidence that environmental factors--from deforestation and desertification to global warming and ozone depletion--will loom larger in world affairs. His book is chockablock with recent portents: how loss of topsoil in the Philippines pushed citizens to the guerrilla side; how Britain and Iceland nearly clashed over marine fisheries; how the threatened cut-off of water flows from rivers outside its borders helped cause Israel's 1967 war against the Arabs. Looking ahead, Myers examines major international regions and predicts loss of stability or out-and-out conflict over natural resource-related issues in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere. The number of "environmental refugees" alone could reach 400 million, he claims, as the greenhouse effect kicks in, causing higher sea levels and flooding. The author urges United States-led collective action by the world's nations.

Siterunner note: The UN in 2015/2016 estimates refugees at 65+ million due to environmental/economic disruption and war

http://strategicdemands.com/brexit-day-one/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36573082

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GreenPolicy Expands 'Environmental Security'

New Definitions of National Security

A Reminder: When the Green Party first was established in Europe, on its way to forming internationally in over 100 countries, it began at the frontlines of the Cold War and imminent threats that would end life as we know it.

The nuclear issue became the first issue to be faced and confronted by Greens.

It was, and is, 'environmental security' organizing as it should be -- focused on individual, national, global security.

Following is a snapshot of this work continuing on within GreenPolicy360 - Strategic Demands, a 'greening' of environmental security:

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security

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From GreenPolicy's Associate -- Strategic Demands

www.strategicdemands.com

Nuclear Use Scenarios / June 2016

New Nuclear Arsenal / June 2016

Hiroshima / May 2016

Stewards of the Apocalypse / May 2016

Recipe for Proliferation / April 2016

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink / January 2016

Remembering a Day in 1962 / October 2015

Next-Gen Nuclear Weapons / October 2015

Mideast Proliferation v Non-proliferation / Sept 2015

The Iran Deal / August 2015

Iran and Diplomacy / August 2015

A Win for Non-proliferation / July 2015

Deal: Now to Implementation / July 2015

A Day in the Life of a Nuclear Arms Race / June 2015

Hair Trigger Revcon / June 2015

Pits: Future of Nuclear Warhead Cores / May 2015

Nuclear Modernization and the NPT / April 2015

"The Edge", Europe and Russia - Cold War 2.0 / Feb 2015

Blip on the Screen / Jan 2015

Going Bzhrk / Jan 2015

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http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Krauss-Doomsday-Clock-320.jpg

http://thebulletin.org/three-minutes-and-counting7938

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/still-three-minutes-to-midnight

MIC / Military-Industrial Complex

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

Strategic Organizations

Read More @ Strategic Demands

Environmental Security Organization

Center for Climate & Security

Environmental Health Sciences-Climate

EcoWatch

Environment 360

GreenLinks/GreenPolicy360

Generation Foundation ('sustainable capitalism')

GP360-Digital Rights

Grist-Climate&Energy

Institute for Environmental Diplomacy & Security

Institute for Environmental Security

Millenium Project

NASA Earth Right Now

NASA Climate

NASA 'Scientific-consensus' on Climate Change

Natural Resources Defense Council

Nonproliferation Review

Oil Change International

Stockholm Environment Institute

Sustainable Security

Truman National Security Project

Wilson Center-Environmental Change & Security

Wilson Center-New Security Beat

Strategic/Environmental Organizations

Acronymn Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy

American Security Project

Aspen Strategy Group

Atlantic Council

Bonn International Center for Conversion

British American Security Information Council

Böll Foundation

Brookings Institute

Brookings Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference

Center for International Policy

Center for New American Security

Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute for International Studies

Center for Security Studies

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Chatham House

Federation of American Scientists

Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Global Security Institute

Institute for Economics and Peace

International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

International Crisis Group

International Institute for Strategic Studies-IISS

International Law and Policy Institute

International Studies Association

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

National Security Network

New America Foundation

New America-Future of War Project

New America-Open Technology Institute

Nuclear Security Project

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Oxford Research Group

Peace Research Institute

Peter Peterson Foundation

Ploughshares

Reaching Critical Will

Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Truman National Security Project

Unfold Zero

World Institute for Nuclear Security

World Policy Institute

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