16/08/2025
Guns, Tanks, and Heatwaves: Rethinking Security in the Age of Climate Change – Erin Sikorsky
In this Climate.Genn episode I am speaking with Erin Sikorsky, Director at The Center for Climate and Security and also the Security Director at the The International Military Council on Climate and Security. We are discussing issues that Erin covers in her new book, Climate Change on the Battlefield.
https://genn.cc/erin-sikorsky-book/
Erin Sikorsky Quotes:
“Because the Trump administration is attacking so much climate science, it makes it really hard for the Defence Department to make smart decisions about infrastructure resilience if they don’t have good data and information from NOAA or NASA.”
“Spain is just saying out loud what other countries are thinking behind the scenes — that military spending must also include climate adaptation and resilience.”
“It is very typical in the national security community to rack and stack threats — is China a bigger threat than climate change, is terrorism a bigger threat than climate change — when really the question is: how does climate shape those competitions?”
“On the AMOC, it used to be considered a high-impact, low-probability scenario. Now we’re edging toward a high-probability, high-impact scenario — the kind of risk militaries need to be gaming out, just like they would a potential war over Taiwan.”
In this Climate.Genn episode I am speaking with Erin Sikorsky, Director at The Center for Climate and Security and also the Security Director at the The International Military Council on Climate and Security. We are discussing issues that Erin covers in her new book, Climate Change on the Battlefiel...
