VomDick, W. (2015, August 14). Why Climate Change Could be China’s Biggest Security Threat. Retrieved August 21, 2015, from http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/why-climate-change-could-be-chinas-biggest-security-threat/  

 

Ever since China has acknowledged the existence of global climate change in 2004, they have been working to help reduce their footprint on global warming. China should continue to tirelessly try to curb their environmental impact because they suffer additional consequences with their security. Global climate change has emerged as one of China’s biggest hindrance to security. The alarming rise in sea level threatens to submerge much of the country’s important and highly-populated. Consequently, large-scale flooding will cause much of the maritime area populations to retreat inland, which will hinder their economy in many ways. China will also surely suffer from an uptick of natural disasters in the future, for this extreme weather will destroy many important buildings and locations critical to China’s security. These locations that could be damaged include Three Georges Dam and many missile-launching sites. Finally the northern desertification will deplete all the resources necessary to support the Great Green Wall project, a huge line of trees planted to prevent desertification and help preserve fertile land.

This article has to do with environmental science because China and other large contributors to global climate change such as the United States have to find scientific solutions to this looming issue. It is crazy how soon we can see the effects of global climate change, even on people. I think it is a good wake up call for the human race to experience direct impact of global climate change. It will hopefully motivate and elicit more rigorous reform across the globe to stop global warming. China needs to respond to these very real threats soon or they will only worsen and make China a much more vulnerable country .