Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to Vice, humans are tearing each other apart because of climate change.
This Is How Climate Change Will Increase Human Conflict
Water wars, state repression, an Arctic ‘Gold Rush’ and other ways humans will be tearing each other apart as the planet heats up.
By James Greig 05 June 2020, 6:30pm
Whether or not climate change will exacerbate conflict is no longer a hypothetical question: according to the Red Cross, it’s already happening. As long ago as 2018, Peter Maurer, the head of the organisation’s International Committee, told the Guardian: “When I think about our engagement in sub-Saharan Africa, in Somalia, in other places of the world, I see that climate change has already had a massive impact on population movement, on fertility of land. It’s very obvious that some of the violence that we are observing… is directly linked to the impact of climate change and changing rainfall patterns.”
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“I was never in Iraq,” Bethea says, “but there were a number of people who I met who were very disillusioned by their experiences there. They felt that what was done to the Iraqi people would be done to Americans sooner rather than later. It was the idea that, ‘It won’t be long before they have an Abu Ghraib for Americans.’ I think what we’re seeing in the US now, with the reactionary right basically getting top cover to run concentration camps for immigrants – and even their US citizen children – is, in some ways, a confirmation of that. I can only see that rhetoric, and the militarisation that comes along with it, getting more and more severe.”
And what does this have to do with climate change? “Global warming is going to drive huge numbers of people to flee into more temperate climates. The US and UK are pretty similar in terms of their hostility to immigration, and you’re seeing this militarised response even now when immigration rates aren’t particularly high.
“If it’s this bad already,” he continues, “with the US letting toddlers die of influenza in concentration camps for minors, and the UK aggressively deporting elderly children of 1940s immigrants – who are very clearly British citizens – what is it going to look like when climate change worsens?”
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Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/z3b8a5/this-is-how-climate-change-will-increase-human-conflict
According to US government census, net migration in the USA is mostly to warm Southern states. And a 2018 study suggested climate change has had very little impact on conflict.
hmmm really,
PARIS
The casualties from the use of pepper spray by the French police during Yellow Vest protests has risen, local media reported Friday.
According to French Mediapart website, 11 people were killed, five lost their hands due to use of grenades and 23 lost their eyesight.
Some 2,000 people were injured at the demonstrations. Of them 268 people suffered head injuries, 15 hand injuries, 64 body injuries, 26 back injuries and 106 leg injuries.
In addition, 95 journalists, 40 high school students and 30 volunteer health officers were injured in the demonstrations and 145 acts of insult and violation of press freedom by French police were recorded.
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the National Police Investigation Unit (IGPN) launched 220 criminal investigations on suspicion of police violence against the demonstrations.
So you would argue that climate change is equivalent to progressives raising taxes on the French poor?
Is that what you’re saying?
And it causes hemorrhoids, too! Sufferers, unite to bring about the
glorious anarcho-Stalinist revolutionMother Gaia utopia!They should be in a cave in Greece where only a few are allowed to ask for advice.
Obviously advocating open borders and uncontrolled immigration with no laws except those they would like.
Wait, we already have that by some.
Somalia is hell on earth.
It’s many, many problems are obviously being exacerbated by ongoing drought in this part of East Africa, but to put the blame solely on “climate change” is a massive over simplification of a terrible situation that Somalians find themselves in, and any suggestion that a reduction in CO² in the atmosphere would somehow resolve those problems is quite frankly ridiculous.
Everyone remembers “Live Aid” back in the early eighties as a response to the worst drought in a hundred years in Ethiopia (just next door), back when atmospheric CO² was around 20% lower than today.
From a study published 27 January 2000 in Nature,
entitled: Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years.
Quote from the Abstract:
“Our data indicate that, over the past millennium, equatorial east Africa has alternated between contrasting climate conditions, with significantly drier climate than today during the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ (∼ AD 1000–1270) and a relatively wet climate during the ‘Little Ice Age’ (∼ AD 1270–1850) which was interrupted by three prolonged dry episodes.
Other reading: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/droughts_in_africa.pdf