Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called on other nations to join the Pentagon in taking steps to mitigate and adapt to climate change, calling it a “threat multiplier” that could exacerbate global challenges if left unaddressed, the Washington Examiner reports.
“Climate change is a threat multiplier,” Hagel said at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas in Arequipa, Peru, “because it has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we already confront today — from infectious disease to armed insurgencies — and to produce new challenges in the future.
