Chatter: The Military, Climate Change, and the Environment, with Sherri Goodman
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🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Sherri Goodman was the first Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security and has worked on issues around climate change, the environment, and security for more than 35 years. She joined David Priess to discuss her work on the staff of the Senate Armed Service Committee starting in the 1980s, her impressions of Senator Sam Nunn, her duties as the first Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environmental Security), the campaign to clean up the Defense Department's nuclear-related facilities, her visits to Russia in the 1990s, the threat climate change poses to military facilities, the US military as an environmental crisis responder, how climate change and environmental concerns have changed military training, climate change as multiplier of opportunities as well as a multiplier of threats, and more.
Works mentioned in this episode:
Threat Multiplier by Sherri Goodman
Military Responses to Climate Hazards (MiRCH) Tracker, at the Center for Climate & Security
New Cold Wars by David Sanger with Mary Brooks
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
The Heat and the Fury by Peter Schwartzstein
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| 1:33.1 | Welcome to Chatter. I'm David Priest. This week, the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security, Sherry Goodman, on the military, climate change, and the environment. |
| 1:50.7 | He used to say, Sherry, stop doing studies, just clean it up. |
| 1:55.0 | You know, it was hard for me to say to EPA then, okay, Senator Stevens doesn't want us to study and assess this problem, just |
| 2:01.7 | get rid of it. |
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