CANADA'S INTELLIGENCE SECTOR CONFRONTS CLIMATE CHANGE: A COLD WAR IN A HOTTER WORLD.

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: 

Canadian Security Intelligence Service is pointing to a disruptive new player on the field: climate change.

 CSIS says it's trying to get a handle on how climate change will disrupt national security Vincent Rigby, who was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security adviser, said climate change is a cumulative threat. A single mudslide doesn't make a national security crisis — but floods and slides increasing in severity over time due to the warming climate could threaten the security of the entire country.

 It's a threat to our economy. It's a threat to our social fabric to a certain extent, and it's a threat to how we deploy our resources."

 Climate change is also likely to drive geopolitical instability and mass migration.

 This fall, the U.S. government warned that tens of millions of people are likely to be displaced by 2050 because of climate change — roughly 143 million people in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America alone.