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Climate change seen fanning conflict and terrorism
 Mods, as this is future predictions, I threw it in WoT Politix. Please move if needed. I did note the title used "Climate Change", whereas the article itself uses "Global Warming" *snicker* Methinks Mr. Trevelyan is gonna get 40 lashes by the enviros over that one, lol!LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming could exacerbate the world's rich-poor divide and help to radicalize populations and fan terrorism in the countries worst affected, security and climate experts said on Wednesday. Naw, couldn't be Islamo-fascism, it's gotta be "We have to reckon with the human propensity for violence," Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the United Nations, told a London conference on "Climate Change: the Global Security Impact." Of course, he's assuming the Islamo-nazis are human, there. "Violence within and between communities and between nation states, we must accept, could possibly increase, because the precedents are all around." He cited Rwanda and Sudan's Darfur region as two examples where drought and overpopulation, relative to scarce resources, had helped to fuel deadly conflicts. Funny, I blame tribal resentments from colonialism and the Arab janjaweed for those 2 "conflicts. In fact, I think we've called them (both) genocide. Bin Laden On Climate Change Who knew binny had time to worry about Climate Change? John Mitchell, chief scientist at Britain's Met Office, noted al Qaeda had already listed environmental damage among its litany of grievances against the United States. "You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries," al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people." More nonsense at link. Posted by: BA 2007-01-24 |
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