Blood for Oil: Energy and Climate Security are "Two Sides of the Same Coin"

The United States and Europe have both experienced the devastating effects of climate change. Severe storms and unpredictable weather patterns have caused massive damage to coastal cities, including Super-storm Hurricane Sandy. Other threats to our national security include economic consequences. The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has released a report, titled "The Climate and Energy Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities for Transatlantic Security", which discusses the national security risks associated with climate change.

This report makes the claim that energy security and climate security are "two sides of the same coin", and that America's obsessive reliance on oil makes the U.S. vulnerable to volatile economic prices and increasing dangers of climate change, in spite of the fact that the U.S. has the lowest oil imports in 20 years.

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