Climate change gets only a brief mention in the latest version of the federal government’s rundown of national security threats. And even then, the Trump administration included it simply to show how little the White House cares about the growing danger of global warming.
“We reject the disastrous ‘climate change’ and ‘Net Zero’ ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries,” wrote the authors of the most recent National Security Strategy, which the White House releases at least once a presidential term.
The dismissal of climate change is in line with the tenor of the rest of the document, which saves some of its harshest language for America’s longtime allies in Europe. For instance, it criticizes European leaders for many of their policies, including immigration, which it warns could make the continent “unrecognizable in 20 years or less.”
It is “far from obvious,” the document adds, “whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies.”
