"Growing tensions engender novel alliances. Canada joins fortress America in a North American bloc. (Alternatively, Canada may seek to keep its abundant hydro-power for itself, straining its ties with the energy-hungry U. S.) North and South Korea align to create a technically savvy, nuclear- armed entity. Europe forms a truly unified bloc to curb its immigration problems and protect against aggressors. Russia, threatened by impoverished neighbors in dire straits, may join the European bloc."
"Nuclear arms proliferation is inevitable. Oil supplies are stretched thin as climate cooling drives up demand. Many countries seek to shore up their energy supplies with nuclear energy, accelerating nuclear proliferation. Japan, South Korea, and Germany develop nuclear-weapons capabilities, as do Iran, Egypt and North Korea. Israel, China, India and Pakistan also are poised to use the bomb."
"As the planet's carrying capacity shrinks, an ancient pattern re-emerges: the eruption of desperate, all-out wars over food, water and energy supplies. As Harvard archeologist Steven LeBlanc has noted, wars over resources were the norm until about three centuries ago. When such conflicts broke out, 25% of a population's adult males usually died. As abrupt climate change hits home, warfare may again come to define human life."
The Pentagon suggests that we: "Speed research on the forces that can trigger abrupt climate change, how it unfolds, and how we'll know it's occurring; Sponsor studies on the scenarios that might play out, including ecological, social, economic and political fallout on key food-producing regions; Identify 'no regrets' strategies to ensure reliable access to food and water and to ensure our national security; Form teams to prepare responses to possible massive migration, and food and water shortages; Explore ways to offset abrupt cooling today it appears easier to warm than to cool the climate via human activities, so there may be 'geo-engineering' options available to prevent a catastrophic temperature drop. "Action now matters, because we may be able to reduce its likelihood of happening, and we can certainly be better prepared if it does. It is time to recognize it as a national security concern." If the weather stays bad, we may need some extra help. Evoking spirits is one of the most powerful and beneficial magical techniques you can use. But for centuries, this technique has either been kept secret or revealed in unusable fragments by those with little practical evocation experience until now."
By Whitley Strieber
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