Assume the Worst When It Comes to Climate Change and Population

Unfortunately, as W. Chris King told members of the Kansas Farmers Union during their annual convention in Topeka on Jan. 4, there is no historical precedence for what the nation and the world face in the future from the combined forces of climate change, overpopulation and resource depletion.

“We have nothing on which to base projections,” he said.  “We have to assume climate change is going to make everything worse.  And there’s no easy, immediate fix.  It’s a really, really hard problem.”

King, chief academic officer for the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College, said that while the idea of climate change seems addressed to our times, it was already being discussed back in the 1970s and 1980s.  The problem was, nobody was listening, least of all the U.S. military.  Nor did the military consider them worthy of study.

Assume the Worst When It Comes to Climate Change and Population