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Of course military must prepare for climate emergency. Will it do so now?

San Diego Union-Tribune · last updated

Re “What Roger Revelle could have taught Secretary Hegseth about climate change” (April 4): I thank Michael Smolens for his outstanding review of why climate change heavily impacts our military, from rising sea levels and increasing severity and frequency of storms at ports (ours) and other facilities, to the cost of delivering fuels to forward operating bases (thousands per truckload and subject to IEDs) to supply vehicles that should be planned to be more efficient, to the rapidly magnifying social/political instability, migration crises and wars over resources.

As both a retired Navy officer and an active citizen lobbyist for addressing climate change, I believe Hegseth’s statement merely reflects, like other actions, his ignorance, inexperience beyond the platoon level, and politicization of basic facts. Having ordered the removal of 26,000 images and references honoring the contributions of all the members of our social fabric, calling them DEI, he now says climate change and its mounting impacts are “woke crap.”  Please send him back to his media career.

— James Ferguson, North Park

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