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

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