In These Times
Sarah Lazare
05/20/2020
Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of the National Priorities Project and co-author of a recent report on U.S. militarism and climate change, told In These Times that a confrontational U.S. posture towards China, no matter who is in the White House, has dire implications. “The thing I'm the most worried about long-term with China is the real danger that we are going to get in a cold war and blow our chances on climate change,” she says. “The most obvious thing is that we could have communication between the countries degrade to the point that we can't have a new Paris Agreement that has both countries. But now, if China and the United States get into an arms race, we will be taking those resources away from any other response to climate change.”
