Climate Change: ‘We’re Not Going Fast Enough’: Sherri Goodman on Climate Change as Security Threat

Sep 23, 2024 | Jessica McKenzie, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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In September 1987, when Sherri Goodman joined the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, she was its youngest professional staff member and the only woman. Goodman would go on to help forge the nascent fields of environmental and climate security. In her new book, Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security, she tells the inside story of what she calls the “military’s environmental awakening.”