“Climate change is often depicted as one of the major threats facing our entire planet and [as] a profound security issue” (as cited in Methmann & Roth, 2012: 42). Climate change is not only science and environmental issue, but also a political and security problem. Human projects have negatively impacted the biosphere at a significant cost. Climate change as a threat is no longer in question - this is a serious security problem. The discourse surrounding climate change should move past the climate-security debate, and move towards developing a response. As argued in this paper, the response should be full secularization of climate change on a global level. There needs to be a heighten, and urgent emphasize on environmental changes for governments, …show more content…
Neil Adger (2007: 643) “human security cannot be separated from the operation of states.” Since states are responsible for providing goods and protecting their citizens from threats. Moreover, “states are critical to providing opportunities for people, creating and providing a stable environment so that livelihoods can be pursued with confidence, and providing measures to protect people when livelihoods contract” (Adger and Barnett, 2007: 646). Climate change ultimately cannot physically harm a state as it would to humans, however, climate change will threaten state legitimacy that will lead to conflict. QUOTE. The inability to provide resources to maintain economic, social and political flow will ultimately hurt the legitimacy of state power, which will propel nation-states into violent conflicts over replenishing natural …show more content…
The looming climate change threat has to move outside of normal politics to be successful securitized, therefore, dealt with as an emergency issue (Scott, 2012: 4). If the international community is not able to recognize climate change as a security issue, thus cooperate, the threat of climate change will initiate global conflicts over resources, which will intensify an already looming