Too Hot to Handle: The Scorching Reality of Australia's Climate-Security Failure
Publisher: Australian Security Leaders Climate Group
Date: 2024
Topics: Climate Change, Governance
Countries: Australia
ASLCG was formed in 2021 by a group of senior former military and intelligence leaders concerned that the security implications of climate change were not understood or addressed by governments. The ASLCG focus is on human security in the broadest sense: the safety of people and communities and the systems they rely upon. That concern is based upon the science developed over decades which demonstrates climate change is accelerating, is already dangerous, and has become an existential threat to human civilisation as we know it. Together with nuclear war, it is the greatest threat to humanity. Australia, as the hottest and driest continent on Earth, is particularly exposed to that threat.