"The prospect of global wars driven by climate change is not something often discussed publicly by our political leaders.
But according to one of America's top military analysts, governments in the US and UK are already being briefed by their own military strategists about how to prepare for a world of mass famine, floods of refugees and even nuclear conflicts over resources.
Gwynne Dyer is a military analyst and author who served in three navies and has held academic posts at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and at Oxford and he says there is a sense of suppressed panic from the scientists and military leaders he spoke to for his latest book, "Climate Wars".
Thus Dyer was introduced and then interviewed on The World Today on ABC Radio National.
If the following isn't a grave and dire warning then it is difficult to imagine what is:
"Dyer: Actually I spent the past year doing a very high speed self-education job on climate change and I think I probably talked to most of the senior people in the field in a dozen countries.
They are scared. They are really frightened. Things are moving far faster than their models predicted.
I mean you may have the Arctic Ocean free of ice entirely in five years' time in the late summer. You know, nobody thought that would happen until about the 2040s. Even a couple of years ago so there is this sense of things moving much faster.
The military are picking up on that and drawing their own scenarios and analyses and predictions up accordingly. The train is leaving the station."
Read the transcript or listen to the interview here.
But according to one of America's top military analysts, governments in the US and UK are already being briefed by their own military strategists about how to prepare for a world of mass famine, floods of refugees and even nuclear conflicts over resources.
Gwynne Dyer is a military analyst and author who served in three navies and has held academic posts at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and at Oxford and he says there is a sense of suppressed panic from the scientists and military leaders he spoke to for his latest book, "Climate Wars".
Thus Dyer was introduced and then interviewed on The World Today on ABC Radio National.
If the following isn't a grave and dire warning then it is difficult to imagine what is:
"Dyer: Actually I spent the past year doing a very high speed self-education job on climate change and I think I probably talked to most of the senior people in the field in a dozen countries.
They are scared. They are really frightened. Things are moving far faster than their models predicted.
I mean you may have the Arctic Ocean free of ice entirely in five years' time in the late summer. You know, nobody thought that would happen until about the 2040s. Even a couple of years ago so there is this sense of things moving much faster.
The military are picking up on that and drawing their own scenarios and analyses and predictions up accordingly. The train is leaving the station."
Read the transcript or listen to the interview here.
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