Brett Daniel Shehadey
Special Contributor for In Homeland Security
Today the National Guard rescues American citizens in the Colorado flood struck town of Boulder. Flash floods have reportedly killed three. And there are forced evacuations of thousands from their homes, including 2,500 residents of Lyons, just 15 miles up the road. The Governor reports that the state lost a good portion of infrastructure and last night the President authorized FEMA to orchestrate actions in tandem with state and local relief efforts.
It would not be difficult to imagine a global extinction event in which humans witness the entire restructuring of their nation’s armed forces in humanitarian assisted, rescue and recovery operations. There is more a chance of this uniting the human race than some Hawking’s envisioned alien invasion. But even a more costly gradual damage that erodes beach resorts, sparks solar flares earth quakes and monsoons are the norm as the earth and sun run their course. The natural state of millions or billions of years is not the golden age stability that we are used to but the ones that are literally boiling under our feet. In the end, the earth may be our greatest enemy, even before the year 2050.
These types of weather related incidents, including Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Katrina on the East Coast, will continue to require the bravery and resources of America’s able-bodied. Disaster relief operations, along with humanitarian operations will become a reluctant core mission not just in the US but internationally. Expect more weather related challenges. Maybe one day they’ll call it the “War on the Nature” and form a whole new industry that rallies national instruments against it. This will be helpful but the real heroes will be the ones on the lines that are out saving lives.
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