OBAMA: Climate change increases chance of terrorism, war
From the Boss
President Obama says climate change increases the likelihood of war and terrorism.
In an interview with The New York Times's Thomas Friedman, which will be featured in the final episode of Showtime's climate series "Years of Living Dangerously" on Monday, Obama voiced grave concern over how global warming can be a national security issue for the United States.
Instability brought on by climate change, Obama said, is what creates an environment for terrorism.
"They don’t have a lot of margin for error, and that has national security implications. When people are hungry, when people are displaced, when there are a lot of young people, particularly young men, who are drifting without prospects for the future, the fertility of the soil for terrorism ends up being significant," Obama said, "and it can have an impact on us."
He also said that climate change can lead to wars by fostering conflict over resources.
"Entire countries can be finding themselves unable to feed themselves, and the potential incidence of conflict that arises out of that — that gets your attention," Obama said. "It’s not just the actual disasters that might arise, it is the accumulating stresses that are placed on a lot of different countries and the possibility of war, conflict, refugees, displacement that arise from a changing climate.”
When Friedman noted the four-year drought in Syria, which spurred the uprising there, Obama said it is a sign of what happens when countries "are just barely hanging on."
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/208634-obama-ties-between-climate-and-terrorism-ripe-in-poorer-countries
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because it takes a 3 digit IQ and multi-step reasoning to understand. If it don't fit on a bumper sticker they don't "get it."
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