The Energy and Environmental Programs Speaker Series, GIS After Dark, and the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies were pleased to host part 2 of the "Water-Energy-Food Nexus" series on Wednesday, December 2, 2020. For the second part of this series, we heard from Paul Sullivan of the National Defense University and Johns Hopkins University.
This talk introduced the connections between the energy-water-food nexus and international security, resource stress, and conflict. Dr. Sullivan presented examples from the past, the present and potential futures. Some of these examples focused India, China, Pakistan, the "Third Pole", Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the Sahel. Climate change was presented as a threat multiplier and a threat creator. Some related issues to be discussed include the importance of reason, science, and common sense; how some cognitive constraints like bounded rationality and improper discounting can get in the way; and the importance of moral, ethical, and strategic leadership.
These are the opinions of the speaker and not of the National Defense University.
