A Munich Conference without myth would require attendees to squarely address a global, security system that serves to enrich what Bob Dylan in 1963 — year of the first conference – called the “masters of war.” It would also reckon with the senseless economic competition between the U.S. and China. The latter is the greatest and most efficient producer of green technology in the world, and the former is the greatest per capita producer of climate warming pollutants. The climate crisis is the greatest security threat the world has ever known, but the U.S. government treats it as an opportunity to thwart Chinese exports instead of facilitate them.
