Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security
10/21/2024 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST
Event Description
Please note this is a hybrid event - you have the option to attend in person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. For in-person attendees, the event will run from 5-7 pm and will include a networking reception (with cash bar). The live stream will begin shortly after 5 pm (virtual attendees will be sent a link for the event via email).
Please join DACOR, the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and The Leadership Council for Women in National Security, for a discussion with Sherri Goodman, Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center, on the themes of her new book, Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security. This event will be moderated by Meaghan Parker, Executive Director of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.
"Threat Multiplier takes us onto the battlefield and inside the Pentagon to show how the US military is confronting the biggest security risk in global history: climate change. More than thirty years ago, when Sherri Goodman became the Pentagon’s first Chief Environmental Officer, no one would have imagined this role for our armed forces.
Indeed, for much of the twentieth century, the Department of Defense (DOD) was better known for containing the Soviet nuclear threat than protecting the environment. And yet, today, the military has moved from an environmental laggard to a clean energy and climate leader, recognizing that a warming world exacerbates every threat—from hurricanes and forest fires, to competition for increasingly scarce food and water, to terrorism and power plays by Russia and China. The Pentagon now considers climate in war games, disaster relief planning, international diplomacy, and even the design of its own bases.
What was the key to this dramatic change in military thinking? What keeps today’s generals and admirals up at night? How can we safeguard our national defense and our planet? No one is better poised to answer these questions than Sherri Goodman, who was at the vanguard of environmental leadership among our armed forces and civilian representatives. In Threat Multiplier, she tells the inside story of the military’s fight for global security, a tale that is as hopeful as it is harrowing." - Island Press
This dynamic conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and networking reception. Space is limited, so register early to secure your spot.
