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Abrupt Climate Change: A Visual Perception of the World in the 21st Century

The Implications for the Security of the United States of America and the Global Order

Abrupt Climate
Change

Impacted Regions:
Global Global 2000-2030
Warming Cooling
North America
Rising Temperatures Drier and Colder Climates Cold, Dry, Windy

Europe
Cold, Dry, Windy
Stronger Reduced
Violent Thermohaline Africa
Weathers Circulation Hot & Dry

Flooding & Drought & Central Asia


Megafloods Megadrought Wet & Stormy
IMPACTS
Asia
Dry, Intermittent, Wet
Agricultural
Fresh Water South America
Productions
Hot & Wet/Dry

Some Australia
Grain / wheat Hot & Wet/Dry
species will Fisheries
die off productions

Some species may evolve to


replace extinct species and Globalized
fundamentally change the Energy Famine
productions
entire food chain system

FAILURES Coastal Pestilence


National
Economies Infrastructures (Plagues)

Cooperation Social
among Progressions
nation-states Living
Infrastructures

Accusations,
Social Several Asian nation-
Demise of Failed Anger,
Riots Order states form an Asian
Nation-States Blame,
Collapse Union
Indifference

Regional Potentially, more than


Conflicts a third of the world's
National populations will perish
Liberty Russia joins
Honor by 2030
European Union

Ideology Human-
Religion Global Carrying
Conflicts Capacity

Possible Emergence of a
The Future is Grim. single Islamic union

The collapse of Saudi


Water Arabia
Scarcity
Forced massive
SURVIVAL
immigrations
Natural
Food Resources
Scarcity Scarcity China and the US/NAU
comes to conflict
United States, Canada
and Mexico merge into a Nuclear War
North American Union before 2040?

A virtual powerful "fortress" to


reduce or steam the flow of
peoples escaping conflicts National Energy
and natural miseries.
security Security

Hurricane
Technological
Forces Regional Innovations and
reaching C5 security advancements
levels New continents
outlined by newly ??
established sea
International terrorist groups,
Thermohaline levels
tied to nationalist, ideological
Circulation Oil Water or religious causes, emerge
Restores to combat or destroy the
High- future global order.
Crucial
Valued
Materials
Resources
Renewed
Glaciers in Important A further third of
the North & territories world's populations
South Poles
may perish by 2050

Nature begin Emergence


to restore of a Global
worldwide
Union

The
beginning of a
new Ice Age
The future of humanity
continues?

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