[lbo-talk] Climate War: You Might Not Be Interested in Climate Change, But Climate Change is Interested in You

[Nicholas Roberts]

Clearly, factors that may impact conflict can be exacerbated by a warming
planet. Demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt that sparked the Arab Spring
last year began partly because of protests over rising food prices — a
persistent problem that will increase with more severe heat waves, droughts
and floods — see Climate Story of the Year: Warming-Driven Drought and
Extreme Weather Emerge as Key Threat to Global Food
Security<http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/21/393127/climate-story-of-the-year-warming-driven-drought-extreme-weather-emerge-as-threat-to-global-food-security/>
.

And in Darfur, a prolonged drought was one of the catalysts for the social
unrest that caused a brutal decade-long civil war. Some have gone far
enough to call it the “first climate war.”

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/01/26/412543/podcast-we-must-address-the-climate-security-nexus/

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