Posts Tagged ‘global conflict’

• Climate Wars by Gwynne Dyer

  With a title like Climate Wars this book looks “alarmist” even to someone sick and tired of being called just that. But actually, it is far less dramatic than the action paced science fiction that may come to mind. Written …

• The dangerous link between climate and conflict

  Rebecca Sargent at a piece of conflict has been reading CLIMATE CHANGE, CONFLICT AND FRAGILITY – Understanding the linkages, shaping effective responses (pdf), a report by Dan Smith and Janani Vivekananda of International Alert (It’s from November 2009 and a …

• Nicholas Stern: Climate change will create billions of refugees, extended world war

  Lord Nicholas Stern, British economist and academic who is most known for the Stern Review said, during an improvised speech at a Cape Town hotel in South Africa, that if we don’t act quickly and determinedly to address climate change …

• Climate change threatens Pacific security, may spark global conflict

  Photo credit: Pieter Pieterse In a confidential security review by Australia’s Defence Force, named “Climate Change, The Environment, Resources And Conflict”, the Australian army says climate change will pose “one of the biggest threats to security in the Pacific“. The …