GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE WARS
FIRST EDITION
As the planet warms, floods, storms, rising seas & drought will uproot millions of people, & with dire widen consequences. Barack Obama, collecting his noble peace prize, said that climate change “will fuel more conflict for decades”.
The forecast is close to becoming received wisdom. A flurry of new books with titles such as “Global Warring” & “Climate Conflict” offer near-apocalyptic visions. Cleo Paskal, at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, predicts that floods storms, the failure of the Indian Monsoon & agricultural collapse will bring “enormous, & specific, geopolitical, economic & security consequences for all of us.
Jeffry Majo of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, also in London ,calls climate change an “essential threat” & fears it could usher in “state failure & internal conflict” in exposed places, notably Africa.
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