VOTEVETS YouTube video: ret. Brigadier General Steven Anderson comes out against oil, backs clean energy legislation, warns of the dangers to our national security of our addiction to fossil fuels

VOTEVETS YouTube video: 

Ret. Brigadier General Steven Anderson comes out against oil, backs clean energy legislation, warns of the dangers to our national security of our addiction to fossil fuels



Link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3RUCeZUYs

From Joseph Romm at the Climate Progress blog:

Brigadier General Steven Anderson (Ret.), Chief of Logistics in Iraq under General David Petraeus, featured in the ad, warns us of the dangerous costs of our addiction:

Our troops are getting killed moving fuel we wouldn’t need if our military was more efficient — and our enemies know we’re hooked on their oil…. That’s why breaking our addiction must not only be a military priority, but America’s mission, and why the Senate needs to pass a clean energy climate plan.

He concludes,

It’s time for our senators to choose: Pass a clean energy climate plan that makes us more secure… or let America keep paying the price.

Recent polls show that Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans overwhelmingly support clean energy and climate legislation.

In addition to our dangerous dependence on oil addition, climate change is broadly regarded as a threat to national security within the security community.  The Department of Defense’s February 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review argued that climate change is a “destabilizing agent” and the Center for Naval Analysis convened a board of military officials who concluded in 2007 that climate change is a “threat multiplier.”  The 2010 Joint Operating Environment (JOE) report by  the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) pinpoints climate change as a top 10 security issue: “one of the ten trends most likely to impact the Joint Force.”

Link:  http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/20/video-ad-general-in-iraq-under-petraeus-on-urgent-need-to-pass-climate-and-clean-energy-jobs-bill/#more-30109