A few years ago the Pentagon-sponsored report, Abrupt Climate
Change Scenario warned of the need to strengthen US defenses
against "unwanted starving immigrants" from the Caribbean,
Mexico and South America. In January 2007, the Halliburton
subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root won a contract from the US
government to augment existing immigration detention and removal
facilities "in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants
into the US." Some worry that climate change issue is being
looked at the wrong way. Rather than looking for solutions to
help mitigate climate change backlashes around the world,
developed nations are only looking out for their own short-term
interests. Some fear this mindset could be used as an excuse for
the US military to justify more overseas interventions,
especially in Africa. American defense officials are currently
citing the threat of climate-induced disorder and to legitimize
the establishment of AFRICOM, the Bush administration's
controversial new regional military command fo