Climate Change and Global Security in the 21st Century: A Geo-Political Assessment

Poly Alens Okhakhu ,Haruna Yusuf Tashok

doi:10.7176/dcs/9-2-04

Abstract

This study examines climate change and global security in the current 21st Century from the geo-political perspectives. Applying the specialist realist approach based on authentic first-hand environmental data and relevant literature, the study observes that climate change is caused by both natural processes and reckless human activities which defied standard environmental norms in the global climate system. Across the world, climate change has devastated the natural environments, settlements, human economic activities, and the built-up social facilities. These events led to food insecurity, joblessness, loss of wealth, political instability, migration overseas, emergence of diverse crimes, reinforced terrorism, and deadly civil-military wars which currently disrupt the viable global orders of stability, security, and peaceful human co-existence. Based on its findings, the study suggests viable measures to restore and sustain global security in climate change mitigation, prevention, and eradication, sound environmental maintenance, adequate supplies of food, jobs, and vital social benefits to the people, surface vegetal resurgence, crises resolution, and improved experts’ services in agro-industrial, housing, transport, construction, recreation, evacuation, and military sectors. The realization of these global security measures requires the robust cooperation of sovereign authorities and international agencies. Keywords: Climate Change, Global Security, Causes, Impacts, Assessment, Prevention. DOI : 10.7176/DCS/9-2-04

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IntroductionIntroduction and Research ProblemAcross the different climatic regions of the world, the concept of climate change attracts a plethora of meanings from different scientists’ assessments
Introduction and Research ProblemAcross the different climatic regions of the world, the concept of climate change attracts a plethora of meanings from different scientists’ assessments
These cells, in collaboration with the nationals, are currently prominent for intermittent bombings and shootings in populated workplaces, sport districts, markets, train stations, military camps, security checkpoints, airports, major night clubs, movie recreations, and the university campuses. These environmental, socio-economic and human challenges have transformed the current stable orders of security, peaceful co-existence and sustainable comfort of the world into risky chaos and unprecedented suffering of her peoples. It is against these challenges this current study examines Climate Change and Global Security in the 21st Century from the Geo-political Perspectives using the realist specialist approach

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Introduction and Research ProblemAcross the different climatic regions of the world, the concept of climate change attracts a plethora of meanings from different scientists’ assessments. The realist specialist approach to its definitions is used This approach, as Joseph (2012) argues, states that there are three levels into which any phenomenon, in modern Climatology, can be structured. The underlying processes which cause things to happen; second, the events that they produce depending on the circumstances; and the empirical observations of those events made by the experts. This approach accepts that in complex open environmental systems, the interacting mechanisms may not always produce an event.

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