ABSTRACT
Environmental insecurity has increasingly been invoked in international political discourse but subsequent political responses have been highly diverse since there is no consensus on what this actually means. National securitization may be welcomed in terms of getting governments on board and giving environmental issues more prominence but this often leads to the issues being framed in militaristic terms. This has served to alienate many ecologists from human and critical security approaches which are, in reality, complementary to their belief in abandoning preoccupations with the state and military defence and, instead, mobilizing global responses to different kinds of threats to life.
