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On the recordMarch 8, 2017
Global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for U.S. national security interests over the foreseeable future because it will aggravate existing problems--such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren highlights climate change as a significant threat to national security.

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