RECOVERED HISTORY: SECRET PENTAGON REPORT SEES ECO DISASTER COMING

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OBSERVER, UK, 2004 - A secret report, suppressed by US defense chiefs
and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be
sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate
by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting
will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet
to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend
and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to
global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts
privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes
the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'

The findings will prove humiliating to the Bush administration, which
has repeatedly denied that climate change even exists. Experts said that
they will also make unsettling reading for a President who has insisted
national defense is a priority. . .

Climate change 'should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a US
national security concern', say the authors, Peter Schwartz, CIA
consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and
Doug Randall of the California-based Global Business Network. . .

Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a
higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages
of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome,
plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic
conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass
migration of populations that could soon be repeated. . .

Randall added that it was already possibly too late to prevent a
disaster happening. 'We don't know exactly where we are in the process.
It could start tomorrow and we would not know for another five years,'
he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

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