Climate change 'threatens peace', UN official warns

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News

21 July 2011 Last updated at 00:20 ET
Climate change 'threatens peace', UN official warns

Climate change poses a major threat to future peace and security, a senior UN official has warned.

Achim Steiner from the UN Environment Programme said climate change would also "exponentially" increase the scale of natural disasters.

His comments followed a UN declaration of famine in parts of Somalia.

Meanwhile, Russia rejected a Security Council statement backed by Western nations which asserted the link, but later agreed to a weaker text.



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[Cool Logic]

1. Is this the same UN official that created the "Gaddafi Human Rights Prize?"

[UrbScotty]

2. That was Gaddafi himself who created that.

What does that have to do with the OP?

[Bragi]

6. Thanks for your pointless drive-by anti-UN smear /nt

[Cool Logic]

8. Given that the UN is a drive-by organization, controlled by a cabal of intellectually impaired

hoodlums, a drive-by, or a fly-by response, is appropriate.

[SpiralHawk]

9. Nah. he's a Republicon who created the Ronald Reagan Astrology Award

[No Elephants]

3. NS, S. When Al Gore got the Nobel Peace Prize, the RWers on the board I was posting on then

were befuddled as to why he had gotten a PEACE prize. Seemed self evident to me.

If he had gotten a humanitarian award, I would have understood that as well.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I believe it.

Hunger and misery will trump everything else someday soon. The masses will become even more unhappy as resources diminish. It's even happening here in our own country.

[July16th-20th]

5. No: Climate Change threatens PIECE

As in the piece of the corporate pie of profits.

[slackmaster]

7. What peace and security?

:argh:

[goforit]

10. Actually...,climate change threatens war!

We only have time for survival.