Introduction -- What is natural security? -- Natural security focus areas -- Conclusion
Summary
Over the last two years, CNAS has developed a body of work on the national security and foreign policy implications of energy and climate change. As we conducted this work, we came to understand that these challenges are linked to other natural resource challenges, most notably non-fuel mineral supplies, water, land use/food supply, and biodiversity. Consider that as the United States attempts to address the inherent geostrategic weakness of its reliance on oil (and the role the U.S. military, as a significant consumer of hydrocarbons, plays in that vulnerability), some of the proposed solutions will simply swap in other dependencies, also with security consequences
