Talk to Focus on Dangers of Climate Change & Water Scarcity

Aug 4, 2016 | Leavenworth Public Library
Leavenworth, Kansas
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Dr. Wendell King is Dean of Academics, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He will speak about the impact of climate change and water scarcity on the population at 7 p.m., Aug. 4, at the Leavenworth Public Library.

This lecture will focus on enhancing the understanding of environmental security and its impact on the national security of the United States.This is the academic discipline examining damaging environmental issues that have the potential to deny people their basic human needs and thus, lead to insecurity, failed states, and even war.Climate change and water scarcity are two critical environmental security issues that will be examined during the presentation, among others.The UN IPCC work will be used as a basis for the climate change discussions and the results of the recent UN Climate Change Summit in Paris will be analyzed and discussed.

In addition to environmental security and climate change, this lecture will also focus on refugees and climate change. Countries such as Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan will be discussed further as they will continue to suffer the multiple and concurrent stressors of climate change including extreme weather, sea level rise, and monsoon flooding could yield many millions of environmental refugees. Many other places in the world, Africa for one, will dry to the point they will no longer be able to support burgeoning populations in many countries.

Please join, Dr. Wendell King on discussing these interesting topics and more.