Tag: NATO
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Will 2013 be the Year of Environmental Security?
Happy new year, folks. The Mayans were wrong, and I hope you haven’t cashed in the retirement fund. We’re still here. And yet the rhetoric of doom is alive and well, as the lead up to the entirely-avoidable “fiscal cliff” in the United States testifies. It seems like we always enjoy flirting with disaster. And…
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NATO and Environmentalism
Did you know that Richard Nixon tried to turn NATO into an environmental organization? It was pretty baffling for the allies, who took the alliance seriously as a military organization, and also took seriously their scientific bodies devoted to environmental issues. But Nixon had a different agenda, to link environmental issues to American foreign policy…
Jacob Darwin Hamblin 