Losing the Arctic: the U.S. corporate community, the national-security state, and climate change

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonds
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Security ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
National Security State ◽  
Corporate Community ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals U.S. Arctic Leader: With Shell Oil out, Arctic Lost Attention

Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy Showstack
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Far North ◽  
The U.S

Shell's drilling activities in the Arctic drew the world's eyes to the far north and to issues like climate change and oil spills, the U.S. special representative for the Arctic said in a recent talk.

scholarly journals WALRUS: THE SENSITIVE GIANT IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE: CLIMATIC ADAPTATION AND CHALLENGES

2018 ◽  
pp. 063
Author(s):  
Apostolos Tsiouvalas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Adaptive Behaviour ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Climate Trends ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
Odobenus Rosmarus ◽  
The U.S

There is no doubt that the cryosphere is changing, the planet's temperature is increasing and ice is retreating. Earth is gradually experiencing the repercussions of global warming which are most visible at high latitudes, and especially in the Arctic, the home of Odobenus Rosmarus or simply Walrus. The walrus is one of the most ice-dependent species. Walruses use sea ice for crucial behaviours like giving birth, feeding and resting. As the seasonal dynamics of ice cover on arctic seas change, walruses tend to congregate on coasts without ice. Thanks to this adaptation of walruses to different climate trends they have successfully survived and conserved their populations. Its adaptability has been the driving force behind preventing the walrus from being listed as an endangered species. Some scientists are attributing this trend to a normal adaptive behaviour of the mammal, while others already have noticed a risk violently posed by climate change. This article is motivated by the announcement of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the walruses were unlikely to be considered endangered in the foreseeable future, addresses the vulnerability of walruses to climate change, explaining their dependence on sea ice and the need for reconsideration of the above statement.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian G. R. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
National Security ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
National Security State ◽  
The U.S

The conclusion of Predator Empire, while in some way recapping some of the major themes in the book, is centered on the idea of the passage from the U.S. social security state to the national security state (i.e. the Predator Empire), and how this has created an unaccountable and alienated form of government control.

Sounds, Images, Politics and Place

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Richard Lerman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The U.S

The author discusses the concepts he has developed while gathering sound(s) and images for projects engaging politics and place, often at sites where human rights abuses have taken place. These works include recordings made at several Japanese-American and Aleut internment sites and at Nazi concentration camps, as well as borderlands works, environmental works on water use in the U.S. Southwest, and works addressing climate change in the Arctic.

Prophetic Ministry in the National Security State

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-311
Author(s):  
Walter Brueggemann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The United States ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Common Life ◽  
National Security State ◽  
The U.S

Faithful Christian preaching in the United States is in the context of the ideology of the national security state, an ideology that permeates every facet of our common life. In that difficult and demanding context, this essay urges that Christian preaching must go back to basics, that everything depends on the mystery of faith, that “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.” From that elemental claim, it is proposed that at the center of faith and faithful experience is an abyss that in the Old Testament came as the destruction of Jerusalem and in the U.S. national security state comes to be epitomized as “9/11.” Focusing on the abyss, according to that ideology, evokes denial about going into the abyss and despair about ever getting out of it. The prophetic rejoinder to such denial is truth telling, and the prophetic response to despair is hope telling. This truth has a Friday tone, and this hope has a Sunday flavor. Such truth and hope expose the ideology of the national security state as a promise that cannot be kept and invite alternative discipleship that issues in joy and freedom outside that system of death. In its original form, this essay was an address delivered at the 2007 Festival of Homiletics in Nashville.

A MODELING SYSTEM FOR CLIMATE CHANGE RISK ASSESSMENT, MANAGEMENT AND HEDGING IN COASTAL AREAS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei Soldatenko ◽  
Sergei Soldatenko ◽  
Genrikh Alekseev ◽  
Genrikh Alekseev ◽  
Alexander Danilov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
System Structure ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Risk Modeling ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
The Impact

Every aspect of human operations faces a wide range of risks, some of which can cause serious consequences. By the start of 21st century, mankind has recognized a new class of risks posed by climate change. It is obvious, that the global climate is changing, and will continue to change, in ways that affect the planning and day to day operations of businesses, government agencies and other organizations and institutions. The manifestations of climate change include but not limited to rising sea levels, increasing temperature, flooding, melting polar sea ice, adverse weather events (e.g. heatwaves, drought, and storms) and a rise in related problems (e.g. health and environmental). Assessing and managing climate risks represent one of the most challenging issues of today and for the future. The purpose of the risk modeling system discussed in this paper is to provide a framework and methodology to quantify risks caused by climate change, to facilitate estimates of the impact of climate change on various spheres of human activities and to compare eventual adaptation and risk mitigation strategies. The system integrates both physical climate system and economic models together with knowledge-based subsystem, which can help support proactive risk management. System structure and its main components are considered. Special attention is paid to climate risk assessment, management and hedging in the Arctic coastal areas.

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