“In 2010, the Pentagon declared, in its Quadrennial
Defense Review, that changes in the global climate are increasing the frequency
and the intensity of cyclones, droughts, floods, and other radical weather
events, and that the effects may destabilize governments; spark mass
migrations, famine, and pandemics; and prompt military conflict in particularly
vulnerable areas of the world, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and
sub-Saharan Africa. The Pentagon, that bastion of woolly radicals, did what the
many denialists in the House of Representatives refuse to do: accept the basic
science.”—David Remnick, “Comment: No More Magical Thinking,” The New
Yorker, November 19, 2012
(Photo of David Remnick taken by Martin Schneider at
the New Yorker Conference, May 9, 2008.)
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