meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Angry Planet

How the Military Is (Quietly) Defying Trump by Battling Climate Change

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3882 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military to directly prepare for climate change. Donald Trump’s White House reversed that policy.


So what’s a general to do?


Tara Copp, Pentagon bureau chief for Military Times, takes us deep into the five-sided box to tell us what the military is doing to fight what they see as a real threat, not just a political football. With more and more civilians in need of rescue, shipyards sinking below sea level, and Arctic ice breaking up, top brass is taking action now and leaving labels for another day.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Love this podcast.

0:02.0

Support this show through the A-Cast supporter feature.

0:05.0

It's up to you how much you give,

0:07.0

and there's no regular commitment.

0:09.0

Just click the link in the show description to support now.

0:24.0

These are some of the most unstable parts of the world and it's where they have seen things like the Islamic State rise. So yes, the military is 100% looking at it in that,

0:28.8

from that point front lines.

0:45.0

Here are your hosts, Matthew Gull.

0:54.0

The

0:55.0

The

0:58.0

Hello and welcome to War College.

1:01.0

I'm Jason Fields.

1:03.3

And I'm Matthew Gold.

1:04.9

The military tends to be fairly practical.

1:07.6

Typically, if it sees a threat, leaders prepare to deal with it.

1:11.4

But what if the enemy is the planet itself?

1:14.2

Taricop, Pentagon Bureau Chief for Military Times, joins us today to talk about the

1:19.3

military's response to climate change, and also what's happened since Donald Trump took office.

1:26.7

So Tara can you give us some insight into how generals and admirals tend to view climate change?

1:32.4

Well from day one Secretary Mattis came into the

1:36.1

Pentagon treating the climate and every other threat as something that the

1:40.4

Pentagon needed to improve its readiness against and they that the Pentagon has not stopped since despite what the President has done in his months in office.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Matthew Gault, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Matthew Gault and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.