U.S. Army's first climate strategy calls for emissions cuts, base protections

Offutt Air Force Base and the surrounding areas affected by flood waters are seen in this aerial photo taken in Nebraska, U.S., on March 16, 2019. Courtesy Rachelle Blake/U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERSon Tuesday designed to help protect bases against damage from global warming and improve readiness by training soldiers to deal with a world with more killer heat waves, droughts and floods.

"We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be called existential. The climate crisis does," Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said in the strategy. "Climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act."the Pentagon would include the risk of climate change in military simulations and war gaming.

U.S. military and intelligence officials over the past decade have come to agreement about the security threats of climate change, including damage to American military bases worldwide, increased global competition over natural resources, and risk of armed conflicts in places where populations are disrupted.

The strategy calls for the Army to slash emissions from buildings, develop an all-electric, non-tactical vehicle fleet by 2035, and the placement of a microgrid, an independent energy system that can use many sources of power including renewables at every installation by 2035.

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