Global, environmental, and ecological degradation, as well as climate change, are likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress and social discontent through 2019, this year, and beyond.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Global, environmental, and ecological degradation, as well as climate change, are likely to fuel competition for…”
On the recordMarch 5, 2019
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Ocasio-Cortez discusses climate change as a national security threat.
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