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Saturday, March 2nd, 2019

Researchers: Violence, War and Climate Change Are Linked

Author:     Tim Radford
Source:     truthdig/Climate News Network
Publication Date:     FEB 24, 2019
 Link: Researchers: Violence, War and Climate Change Are Linked
Stephan:   I have been saying and writing this for a decade. It is so obvious I don't see how governments cannot be preparing for it. American researchers see this clearly. But the United States government is not only not doing anything about climate change, in fact, it is actively trying to propagandize against its very existence. Meanwhile,  the United Nations is predicting 760 million people will be on the move as a result of climate changes. The Chinese think it will be more than a billion. One out of every eight people on the planet. Do you think that will happen without massive violence unless the entire world prepares for it? I don't either.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM —Stand by for long hot summers marked by riot and racial tension. As climate change stokes mayhem, global warming is likely to see a direct rise in human irritability.

Climate change accompanied by natural disaster such as flood or drought could lead to harvest failure and food and water shortages for which people must compete.

And the same natural disasters could lead to a generation of babies, children and adolescents more likely, because of disadvantage and deprivation, to become more prone to violence in adulthood.

Researchers in the US have been thinking carefully about the links between climate change and conflict. This, they write in Current Climate Change Reports, has a long history, and a huge range of studies have addressed the hazard.

And they see more civic strife and conflict on the way. Some of it is likely to involve climate refugees, or ecological migrants: persons driven from their homes by climate change. The steady rise in global temperatures could also help incubate the conditions for global terrorism.

“This is a global issue with very serious consequences. We need to […]

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