NEW YORK, April 12 (Xinhua) — An increase in climate-driven disasters, particularly hurricanes, results in four major risks for U.S. national security, to address which, the government must build a more equitable and responsive national disaster-recovery policy, said an article published on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website early this week.
There are four major risks to national security that result from the increase in climate-driven disasters: loss of confidence in basic governance, increased inequality, internal and external climate migrants, and corruption in a disaster-capitalist system, according to the article.
\”It ends with a reason for hope: a discussion of how disasters can bring people together in multiracial coalitions that present a pathway for bridging the divides that currently characterize an embattled American democracy,\” it said.
Since 1980, more than 15,000 people have been killed in major disasters in the United States, and the federal government has spent 2.2 trillion U.S. dollars on disaster recovery through emergency appropriations, it said.
\”Disasters are getting more expensive as people continue to build in harm\’s way; in 2022 alone, the United States experienced eighteen disaster events that cost at least 1 billion dollars,\” it added.