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The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Senate Committee released a report on May 19 into the implications of climate change for Australia's national security, which warned that climate change poses a "current and existential national security risk" to Australia.
The report defined an existential threat as 鈥渙ne that threatens the premature extinction of Earth-originating intelligent life or the permanent and drastic destruction of its potential for desirable future development鈥.
