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LONDON Britain's Prince Charles has pointed to the world's failure to tackle climate change as a root cause of the civil war in Syria, terrorism and the consequent refugee crisis engulfing Europe.
The heir to the British throne is due to give a keynote speech at the opening of a global climate summit in Paris next week where the leaders of 118 countries will gather to try to nail down a deal to limit rising greenhouse gas emissions.
In an interview with Sky News that was recorded before the attacks in Paris, the prince said such symptoms were a "classic case of not dealing with the problem."
"Some of us were saying 20 something years ago that if we didn't tackle these issues, you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of climate change which means that people have to move," he said. "And in fact there's very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land but increasingly they came into the cities."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/prince-charles-climate-change-root-cause-syrian-war-n468036
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)But climate change did contribute.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)multiple root causes and that there is evidence that climate change is one of those root causes. Which is what you are saying as well.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)Its no shocker that we're seeing violence and unrest in some of the hottest places on earth (the middle east and africa), this is in direct correlation to human brains in the region getting hotter as global temperatures continue rise due to human activity.
I hope the climate change deniers on Right enjoy all the flooding, floating icebergs and millions of angry zombie-like human with hot brains roaming the earth.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Most of the foreign belligerents in the war in Syria are gas-exporting countries with interests in one of the two competing pipeline projects that seek to cross Syrian territory to deliver either Qatari or Iranian gas to Europe, wrote Professor Mitchell Orenstein of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/us-russia-gas-pipeline-war-syria-could-destabilise-putin-103505758
pampango
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(36,266 posts)mr blur
(7,753 posts)Has to speak up because he's irrelevant and nobody here likes him.