Global Warming: a Security Threat?

After reading an article about how global warming could cause a security threat to the U.S., I had to wonder the threat it could actually pose. The article stated, “Unlike the problems that we are used to dealing with, these will come upon us extremely slowly, but come they will, and they will be grinding and inexorable”. This statement just made me think about stasis, and how Virginia Postrel said the government resists change and progress. Global warming could be a security threat to the United States if nothing was done about it, but it is a self proclaimed “slow process” by officials, couldn’t it be possible that in the years to come, technology and innovation could prevent some of the disasters anticipated? I believe there needs to be concern regarding global warming, but obviously it is a hot button topic, and I don’t see people just sitting waiting for disaster to come. Instead, I’m sure that some sort of innovation will be introduced to help prevent any real security threat to the U.S.

www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/us/15warm.html?_r=1&oref=slogin