Another potential dimension of climate change: national security

   Despite the president-elect's hard-line rhetoric on climate change, many are still hopeful that the climate regulation that is already in place is hard to reverse and the market force is shifting in favor of clean energy. With the decrease of clean energy price and increase of employment in the clean energy industry, many politicians from red states are behind legislation to support renewable energy.

   To add another dimension to the issue of climate change, now, dozens of military leaders and defense experts are urging the newly elected president to view climate change as a national security threat. "They urge Trump to order the Pentagon to game out catastrophic climate scenarios, track trends in climate impacts and collaborate with civilian communities. Stresses from climate change can increase the likelihood of international or civil conflict, state failure, mass migration and instability in strategically significant areas around the world, the defense experts argue."