Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said that “climate change is making the world more unsafe and we need to act.”
At the Leaders Summit on Climate convened by President Joe Biden on Earth Day, April 22, Austin told a virtual gathering of the worlds leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping, that climate change is a national security threat not just for his nation, but for all nations.
“Today, no nation can find lasting security without addressing the climate crisis,” he said. “We face all kinds of threats in our line of work, but few of them truly deserve to be…
