Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds the following: The Department of Defense, the agency charged with protecting the national security of the United States, observed as early as 1990 that climate change threatens our military readiness. As of 2019, the Department of Defense is the single largest consumer of energy in the United States, and the single largest institutional consumer of petroleum in the world. Since 2001, the Department of Defense has consistently consumed between 77 and 80 percent of all energy consumption of the United States Government.
As climate change brings more extreme weather, water and soil stress, sea-level rise, ocean acidification, glacial melt, and pollution, greater global tensions over food and water insecurity, resource scarcity, living patterns, and climate-related migration will emerge.