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Originally Posted by Drake
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I agree with Ohios points and would add these additional points.
“....there is no consensus within the growing field of climate-conflict studies on whether violence and civil conflict are in any way related to climatic variables.”
Full article here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...62629816301822
I think it was admirable that Trump telegraphed the attack to mimimize loss of life. Assad could not move buildings and infrastructure so his chemical making capabilities are now greatly diminished. It was a precision strike. Killing people would not have made a difference and killing Russians might have made a big difference.
Drake |
Tens of millions of people will be forced from their homes by climate change in the next decade, creating the biggest refugee crisis the world has ever seen, according to a new report.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...refugee-crisis
Scientists have for years cited extreme weather events connected to climate change as a contributing factor in the ongoing European migrant crisis. Drought and crop failure have destroyed livelihoods and driven sectarian conflict, leading to mass migration from the Middle East and Northern Africa to Europe.
The problem is about to get much worse, according to a new study in the journal Science. Researchers behind the study evaluated asylum applications submitted to the European Union from migrants in more than 100 countries between 2000 and 2014, and found a link between dramatic temperature fluctuations and migration.
As temperatures rise, researchers say unchecked climate change could drive a 188% increase in the number of refugees seeking asylum in Europe annually by the end of the century, as migrants seek to escape temperature extremes that might disrupt livelihoods and aggravate some of the world’s thorniest geopolitical conflicts. (
http://time.com/5076003/climate-change-migration-trump/)
A major contributor to the Syrian conflict? Climate change
Starting in 2006, Syria suffered its worst drought in 900 years; it ruined farms, forced as many as 1.5 million rural denizens to crowd into cities alongside Iraqi refugees and decimated the country’s livestock. Water became scarce and food expensive. The suffering and social chaos caused by the drought were important drivers of the initial unrest.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy...climate-change