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ASP in Chicago: Climate Change Threatens Security Across the Midwest
On Tuesday and Wednesday, April 29 and 30, representatives of the American Security Project visited Chicago for a series of meetings, public events, and briefings on how climate change is affecting security, and how institutions in the region are planning for it. They partnered with the Chicago Council on Science & Technology (C2ST) to highlight the issue across the city.
Attending were BGen Stephen Cheney, USMC (ret.), ASP’s CEO and Brig. General Steven Anderson, USA (Retired). Cheney is the CEO of the American Security Project, and a 30 year veteran of the Marine Corps. Anderson is the Chief Marketing Officer of RELYANT LLC, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business based in Knoxville, Tennessee, that provides key construction, logistics, munitions response, and information services to our troops deployed overseas in the combat zone. Both are members of ASP’s Consensus for American Security. Andrew Holland, ASP’s Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, and Porter Brockway, ASP’s events manager, rounded out the delegation.
Pritzker Military Museum and Library
The first appointment was to meet with and tour the Pritzker Military Museum and Library on Michigan Avenue. ASP met with the leadership of the Pritzker library, including Kenneth Clarke, President & CEO, and toured their extensive collection of military memorabilia and their extensive library.
After the tour, ASP presented to a roundtable of veterans and national security experts about how climate change interacts with America’s security. Questions focused on how climate change would impact America’s military force posture and our ability to intervene around the world.Click below to listen to the full audio of the event.
AUDIO OF PRITZKER ROUNDTABLE
Chicago Tonight
After the meeting, General Cheney and Andrew Holland traveled to the studios of WTTW, Chicago’s public television station for an appearance on “Chicago Tonight” with Dr. Elisabeth Moyer, a climate scientist from the University of Chicago. They talked about the threats of climate change to national security with host Phil Ponce.
Launch of the Argonne Center on Climate Change and Security
On Wednesday morning (4/30), ASP appeared with the Director of Argonne National Laboratory, Peter Littlewood, to discuss the creation of the Center for Integrated Resiliency Analyses, headed by John Hummel. This research center will be tasked with investigating how the changing global environment will affect our ability to respond properly to and mitigate damage from serious natural disasters and crises.
“The concept of national security has undergone very significant changes,” said John Hummel, director of the new center. “Now we recognize that national security can be impacted by economic factors and also environmental factors.”
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On Tuesday and Wednesday, April 29 and 30, representatives of the American Security Project visited Chicago for a series of meetings, public events, and briefings on how climate change is affecting security, and how institutions in the region are planning for it. They partnered with the Chicago Council on Science & Technology (C2ST) to highlight the issue across the city.
Attending were BGen Stephen Cheney, USMC (ret.), ASP’s CEO and Brig. General Steven Anderson, USA (Retired). Cheney is the CEO of the American Security Project, and a 30 year veteran of the Marine Corps. Anderson is the Chief Marketing Officer of RELYANT LLC, a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business based in Knoxville, Tennessee, that provides key construction, logistics, munitions response, and information services to our troops deployed overseas in the combat zone. Both are members of ASP’s Consensus for American Security. Andrew Holland, ASP’s Senior Fellow for Energy and Climate, and Porter Brockway, ASP’s events manager, rounded out the delegation.
Pritzker Military Museum and Library
The first appointment was to meet with and tour the Pritzker Military Museum and Library on Michigan Avenue. ASP met with the leadership of the Pritzker library, including Kenneth Clarke, President & CEO, and toured their extensive collection of military memorabilia and their extensive library.
After the tour, ASP presented to a roundtable of veterans and national security experts about how climate change interacts with America’s security. Questions focused on how climate change would impact America’s military force posture and our ability to intervene around the world.Click below to listen to the full audio of the event.
AUDIO OF PRITZKER ROUNDTABLE
Chicago Tonight
After the meeting, General Cheney and Andrew Holland traveled to the studios of WTTW, Chicago’s public television station for an appearance on “Chicago Tonight” with Dr. Elisabeth Moyer, a climate scientist from the University of Chicago. They talked about the threats of climate change to national security with host Phil Ponce.
Launch of the Argonne Center on Climate Change and Security
On Wednesday morning (4/30), ASP appeared with the Director of Argonne National Laboratory, Peter Littlewood, to discuss the creation of the Center for Integrated Resiliency Analyses, headed by John Hummel. This research center will be tasked with investigating how the changing global environment will affect our ability to respond properly to and mitigate damage from serious natural disasters and crises.
“The concept of national security has undergone very significant changes,” said John Hummel, director of the new center. “Now we recognize that national security can be impacted by economic factors and also environmental factors.”