Impact of Climate Change and Global Warming on National Security

Climate change and the population movements caused by it are a major problem that the executive authorities of states, politicians and migrant communities should think about and find solutions. According to the reports prepared by scientists, it is thought that 50% to 75% of the global population may face life-threatening climatic conditions due to the combined effects of extreme heat and humidity by 2100. The World Health Organisation has classified climate change as the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century.

In addition to climate change and the natural disasters caused by it, armed conflicts that are ongoing or expected to break out at any time due to existing regional conflicts, it is obvious that regional armed conflicts caused by climate change and especially the sharing of natural water resources will lead to a decrease in agricultural product yields, which will cause malnutrition and health problems and deaths caused by malnutrition. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the most basic need among the ‘Biological and Physiological Needs’ is nutrition. Therefore, food production and storage conditions are one of the problems ahead.

In this article, what should be done in terms of infrastructure, agriculture, health, water management and especially SAFETY in our country, which is on the MIGRATION ROUTE of those fleeing from armed conflicts that may occur in the Asian continent, which has more than half of the world's population, will be mentioned.

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It is clear that all relevant institutions of the state need to analyse what climate change and global warming, which we have felt in recent years, will lead to in the coming period, how it will affect our national security and what measures should be taken in response to it, to decide which measures need to be taken and to implement them immediately within a programme. In this context, both the EU and countries that realise the importance of the issue have started to prepare action plans on the responsibilities of state institutions and what to do against climate change and population movements that will occur as a result.

Due to the fact that sudden and torrential rainfall causes flooding and flooding, causing loss of life and property and large amounts of damage, it is necessary to renew the infrastructure and change the standards of the newly constructed ones. It is known that torrential rainfall flows away from the surface without feeding the groundwater, and that strong winds take fertile soils with them, causing erosion and decreasing agricultural productivity. In agriculture, it should be aimed to minimise foreign dependency by planning production and even to become a food warehouse first in our region and then on a global scale, to support industrial branches to extend the shelf life of the products produced, and to implement protection measures such as protection of vegetation against erosion, afforestation, slope control, establishment of fences and leaf barriers, development of land use plans and increasing measures to be taken against fire in our lands other than agricultural areas.

Restructuring the health system and reducing the number of patients per doctor, establishing vaccine research/development and production centres (opening those that have been closed) in order to prevent infectious epidemics, especially due to climate change, freeing the pharmaceutical industry from foreign dependency, and producing drugs for infectious diseases that may become epidemic due to migrants with national resources are among the top measures to be taken.

Predicting that the wars of the future will be fought because of SU is an issue that I think everyone agrees on. For this reason, one of the most essential problems of our country is Water Management. As a result of the decrease in precipitation every year, especially the lack of snowfall, and the rains falling in the form of sudden showers, groundwater cannot be fed and our country is turning into an increasingly arid land structure. In this context; preventing rivers from flowing to waste, building ponds, preventing wild irrigation in agriculture, directing rainwater to rainwater collection basins to be built near settlements without wasting rainwater, reviewing drilling rules for the protection of groundwater, supporting the use of rainwater in smart home projects and taking measures to protect vegetation are the first things that come to mind.

Although the above-mentioned measures are taken, it should be essential not to accept migrants/asylum seekers/refugees above our capacity to absorb by prioritising the use of the scarce resources of the economy by our citizens in the interests of our country and our citizens. It is of vital importance for the health of our own citizens by eliminating the possibility of possible epidemics that those who will be accepted are first registered, health checks are carried out, those who are sick are treated, they are vaccinated against known infectious diseases and quarantined and isolated.

Border security should be handled with an integrated system approach and should be connected to a headquarters that will ensure co-operation and co-ordination between existing units. In addition to the existing units, it will be necessary to establish, equip and deploy helicopter-supported Border Intervention Forces and Border Protection Units for border security only. While establishing these relevant and adequate units, our borders should be monitored with cameras, motion detection sensors, physical barriers to be constructed, satellite-connected UAVs that will provide aerial control of the borders, and a system where surveillance and intervention decisions can be taken. In addition, a separate legal training on border security should be provided. Because we are witnessing that terms such as migrant, irregular migrant, refugee, asylum seeker, fugitive are used incorrectly by politicians, bureaucrats and lawyers due to ignorance or intentionally, even though these terms are mentioned both in international law and in the agreements we are a party to. In this article, without going into the legal dimension of the issue in detail, I will suffice to state that we have a geographical annotation in the distinction between migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in accordance with the agreements to which Turkey is a party and that those outside Europe are accepted as ‘asylum seekers’.

Among those who read this article, there will be those who will say why there is a need to implement these measures so strictly, and that this is also a Human Rights and Humanity Problem, that no action can be taken contrary to international law and agreements, the Geneva Convention of 1951 on the Status of Refugees of the United Nations, also known as the UN Refugee Convention.

In addition to the fact thatthe issue of migration is used as a weapon by those who shape the world and is aimed at disrupting the DEMOGRAPHIC structure of the target countries in terms of social and cultural aspects, as well as the fact that their basic needs and health expenses are already met by the state where they seek asylum, the states have to allocate extra resources to social security institutions due to the fact that social security premiums are not deposited by employing them as cheap illegal workers, and the citizens of the country are unemployed by dismissing their own citizens, In addition, in order to meet their basic needs such as shelter, nutrition, security and even when we add the obligation to provide education, it can cause financial collapse of states that face a huge economic burden; I wish that the United States of America, the world's largest economic power, which is aware of the fact that the stones of a road leading to civil unrest are being laid by creating anger and hatred against immigrants / refugees / asylum seekers in the society, and that the United States of America, the world's largest economic power, is trying to prevent the entry of immigrants by building a wall on the Mexican border and trying to prevent the entry of immigrants, and the number of immigrants / refugees / asylum seekers accepted by other economically powerful countries and their qualifications.

Of course, as the great Atatürk said, "We cannot know that an event that we think is the farthest away will not touch us one day. For this reason, it is necessary to consider all humanity as one body and a nation as an organ of it. All other organs are affected by the pain at the tip of a body's finger ‘. However, we should keep in mind a point he drew attention to in the same interview: ‘Naturally, we will think of all the necessary things for ourselves and do what is necessary. But from now on we will deal with the whole world. ‘ (Ulus newspaper, 20. 3. 1937)