“Climate disruption is the most significant strategic threat Australia faces,” writes a former Australian Defense Force chief. The world has become more dangerous, and climate disruption adds to the danger. The too-slow pace of the energy transition and faster-than-forecast climate impacts are escalating risks. A nation cannot simultaneously ask this industry to build the clean-energy economy of the future, while continuing to expand the industries driving climate disruption. The Australian Security Leaders Climate Group previously documented how the government has found confronting climate impacts and their security consequences simply “too hot to handle.”