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Ex-Army Major turned Greens councillor Carl Benfield says, 'Climate change is the single greatest threat to human security,' as Greens condemn removal of climate resilience from the Defence Investment strategy.
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00:00As a soldier and an engineer, I was used to conducting threat assessments and defensive plans.
00:07It's clear to me that climate change is the single greatest threat to human security that we face.
00:15Removing climate resilience from our national defence and security agenda was an act of complete strategic blindness.
00:23You cannot defend a nation if you refuse to acknowledge the very force that makes its infrastructure obsolete, that burns
00:33its countryside and that threatens its food and water supply.
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