Prince Charles is the latest tall-profile figure to echo claims that ‘securitise’ the conflict. But the evidence just doesn’t stack upWas the Syrian civil war partly caused by climate change? Prince Charles,for one, seems to think so. There is very sterling evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for approximately five or six years, or ” he told Sky News,adding that climate change is having a “huge impact” on conflict and terrorism.
The Prince is not alone on this one: he joins a refrain of voices making similar claims. In the US President Obama, Al Gore, or the democratic presidential hopefuls Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders have all talked of a link between climate change and the Syria conflict,Sanders going so far as to argue that climate change is “directly related to the growth of terrorism”.
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Source: theguardian.com