Climate Change: Meet the Woman Whose Two-Word Catchphrase Made the Military Care about Climate

Nov 29, 2015 | Dan Vergano, BuzzFeed
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In 2006, as war mounted in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military began to see the human costs of climate extremes. As drought hit Afghanistan, one soldier was killed for every 24 convoys to resupply fuel or water. In Iraq, insurgents planted explosives in dams on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers while troops baked in 115-degree summer temperatures.