Climate-security literature often calls for a new approach. A wide-lens review of the United Kingdom's security posture, which considered organized crime, infectious disease, financial stability, and climate change found that the strategy was "unbalanced" and its strategic moorings were "unsound."33 In 2016, international relations practitioners issued an "urgent call for a profound restructuring of international politics and order that can assure the planet's survival."34 More recently, Simon Dalby argues that "traditional notions of security need a rapid overhaul," and he advocates for a focus on decarbonization and making flourishing ecosystems.35 Such calls set new ambitions and seek a change of focus and priority, yet do not always describe what an alternate strategy might look like.
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The link between the 2003 Iraq War and oil, officially denied but best understood through Jeff D. Colgan's nuanced analysis, especially his causal pathways framework, is highly significant to hyperthreat deliberations.82 Through a systems maintenance prism, the 2003 Iraq War can be viewed as being a war waged in support of the hyperthreat. Ironically, and revealing an incoherent grand strategy, at the same time this expensive quasi resource war was waged, global citizens (people with good will toward Earth and its global community) were developing new ways to achieve material security (ecoinnovations, zero-emission technologies), which would have benefited from greater resourcing and support from state tribes to be fully realized. Therefore, in simple terms, instead of going to war to secure fossil fuel resources, hypothetically and in hindsight, energy security could have been achieved through investing the same amount of government resources into a massive transition to renewable energy technologies and ecosensitive design, which would have also helped contain the hyperthreat. 2ff7e9595c
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