The geostrategic approach of the military industrial complex to the Global Environmental Crisis.
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The impact on climate is increasingly analyzed from the perspective of climate security in international studies, a relatively new concept in the mainstream. The aim of the paper is to generate epistemological approaches to the concept of climate security and its consequence in the militarization of the global environmental crisis. A qualitative methodology of the documentary type has been used, which revolved around the state of the art. The results reveal exorbitant numbers and multi-billion dollar budgets for US defense and its allies. It is concluded that the global North, led by the United States, has been managing a geostrategic response to mitigate the effects of climate change, giving it the status of a threat to global security, a strategy that perpetuates its current lifestyle and unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, based on perpetual war, and that only feeds the powerful military industrial complex.
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