Military general attending Kosovo today is one of the harshest climate activists

Nugee has demanded that a mission be given off before withdrawing, which is to prepare a strategy for the British Army to adapt to a dangerously heated world.

In July 2003, Richard Nugee was sweating in a brick building used by the <x0-eddy” of Saddam Hussein as a shelter for smugglers.

Until a few months ago, it was the office of portal authority in Saddam's Iraq. It became Nugee's headquarters and living space, while he commanded British troops in a strategic part of southern Iraq.

There he learned a lesson that extreme weather can be dangerous for soldiers, writes “Washington Post”.

Nearly two decades later, Nugee was a three-star general at the height of his career after participating in operations in world conflict areas, including Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Afghanistan. He became known and became one of the highest officers in all of the British Armed Forces.

In the final battle of his military life, he decided to fight one of his most insane opponents climate change. Exactly, war burns large quantities of fossil fuels. The Pentagon, according to some estimates, is the world's largest institutional consumer of oil. And military leaders have often resisted anything that could potentially “cut the tehu”, including the reduction of emissions.

In his day, Nugee was a follower of climate issues. He covered his house with solar panels. He replanted autochton trees in his fields. But when he wore his winning medal uniform every morning and went to work, he found himself surrounded by colleagues who he thought did not understand how climate change would affect him.

Nugee has demanded that he be given a final mission before withdrawing, and it is to prepare a strategy for the British Army to adapt to a world that is being heated up dangerously. To do so, he gave up the command of a staff of more than 600 people as chief of British Army human resources.

He drafted his plan to reduce military emissions and prepare the armed forces for a warmer planet, step by step, and introduced it to a conference attended by British Prince Charles.

Whoever ignores this would be stupid”, Nugee said among other things.

What he proposed was revolutionary: the creation of a British army that would reduce its carbon emissions to zero by 2050, transforming itself into a better combat force.

Nugee said his challenge was to explain to sceptical defence officials that addressing climate change improves military efficiency, not destroying it.

He also acknowledged that the environmental pollution problem was detected by military tours after 2001. He recalls conditions in Iraq where temperatures were so high that they could not breathe, and the shower was in vain because they sweated in the same seconds that came out of the shower. Nugee says that his soldier drank 16 liters [16 L] of water a day and that he would remain dehydrated.

In the end, he believes that military forces are often neglected when it comes to climate change and stresses how the army should not be extremely transparent on this issue. Moreover, claims that reports sent to the United Nations by the armies of a number of countries have shown failure.

The British Army emits more than Britain as a whole, according to the Washington Post, followed by the Pentagon. However, activists often neglect this sector and focus on those who are obliged to be transparent in the matter.

Secretary - General NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, had declared earlier that the military's <x0-emedimation may have disappeared from the report, but not from atmosphere”.

107-page plan

To reduce such influence, Nugee wrote a 107-page plan and carefully analysed what the British army must do in the direction of the world's overheating.

It proposes an initial reduction of emissions within British borders, and one of the recommendations is the transition to biofuels into air transport, at least 50 percent of the aircraft. Furthermore, it proposes using hybrid electric vehicles, of course, designed in accordance with all safety regulations.

Finally, great is the preparation and mankind for the most difficult conditions in the future. Nugee thus claims that ships in the future will not be able to rely on low sea temperatures to cool engines, as temperatures are increasing.

He also states that the political picture will change, so that nations will be destabilised and some alliances destroyed. It cites the example of Saudi Arabia, but other oil reserves that may become less strategically important if their main product falls to the market. There are also issues of water shortages and electricity that can lead to wars.

All of this has resulted in a response by British military experts who say they are working on all of Nuge's warnings. However, they themselves warn that it will be those who will have to take responsibility if climate policy fails.

Finally, all agree on one thing, efforts to reduce environmental pollution by the military must go in two directions. One is reducing emissions, and the other is preparing for a world where the chair on a thermometer reaches dangerous temperatures.