The U.S. military may be deployed more often to prop up weak governments worldwide as the effects of climate change are expected to destabilize entire regions, offering fertile ground for extremist ideologies, according to a new report from U.S. Joint Forces Command. "Projected climate change will seriously exacerbate already marginal living standards in many Asian, African, and Middle Eastern nations, causing widespread political instability and the likelihood of failed states," JFCOM officials wrote in a December 2007 document called the...
