Could Joe Biden's climate change policy lead to more militarism?

Climate change poses an existential threat. That doesn't mean we should further empower an already bloated Pentagon

This article was jointly produced by Foreign Policy In Focus and In These Times.

The first month of the Biden presidency was a flurry of climate action, sweeping away the openly denialist intransigence of the Trump administration.

After re-entering the Paris Agreement and canceling the Keystone XL pipeline on Day 1, President Biden swiftly rolled out an array of climate-related executive orders calling on all agencies to factor climate into their work. Top among them was an order to ​“center the climate crisis in U.S. foreign policy and national security.”

As part of this order, officials from across more than a dozen intelligence