The Secure and the Dispossessed: how the military and corporations are shaping a climate-changed world, co-edited by Ben Hayes and Nick Buxton, warns that the security and military apparatus currently used by governments to manage climate change exacerbates existing problems and fuels new ones.
The book’s contributers range from experts in academia, journalism, activism, to NGOs. Naomi Klein, a leading climate change activist and author of the best-selling This Changes Everything, has described this book as essential, "if you want to understand why we can't leave it to the Pentagon to shape our response to climate change."
Recently, I spoke with Ben Hayes about where the themes of this collection sit with the ongoing refugee crisis and the 2015 UN Convention on Climate Change (COP21) in Paris, and the impact of France’s national emergency on climate demonstrations in the wake of the terrorist attacks on November 13.
