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To: Lane3 who wrote (63059)	5/2/2008 5:09:50 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542009

If you think about sustainability more broadly, energy naturally gets tangled up with the environment and national defense, although the last one horned itself into the forefront courtesy of Bush. If you look at the federal departments, they overlap a lot. It isn't just courtesy of Bush, it is because it is a real issue. The cause of Darfur was the drought and increasing desertification--people who could not longer live on their increasingly arid land migrated and started killing other people. Wholesale migration will be a result of drought and desertification, which will increase due to climate change (one causal line--> more CO2 increases warmth increases evaporation dries out the soil and leads to more erosion when less frequent but more intense storms occur and wash out the drier soil). Not to mention increased and more intense wildfires (trees drier and increasingly stressed and unable to defend against insect pests as they used to become weaker with each passing season and eventually become fuel for the fires caused by the increased lightning storms that will occur). On national security, here is one link: au.af.mil EDIT: I found a different route to the pdf file that works, it is better than the html file. Although the html file is useful if you want to copy some of the text, so I'll leave the link here: 209.85.165.104 There are plenty more links out there on the topic.