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CLIMATE CHANGE = INCREASE IN TERROR?
[+] ballot by aya
created Wed Jan 24, 07
LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming could exacerbate the world's rich-poor divide and help to radicalize populations and fan terrorism in the countries worst affected, security and climate experts said on Wednesday.

"We have to reckon with the human propensity for violence," said Britain's former ambassador to the
United Nations, told a London conference on "Climate Change: the Global Security Impact."

"Violence within and between communities and between nation states, we must accept, could possibly increase, because the precedents are all around."

He cited Rwanda and Sudan's Darfur region as two examples where drought and overpopulation, relative to scarce resources, had helped to fuel deadly conflicts.

Experts at the conference hosted by the Royal United Services Institute said it was likely that global warming would create huge flows of refugees as people tried to escape areas swamped by rising sea levels.


"Those who are short of food, those who are short of water, those who can't move to countries where it looks as if everything is marvelous are going to be people who are going to adopt desperate measures to try and make their point."


"If you just take the example of Bangladesh, if 60 million of 140 million people could not survive in Bangladesh yet they were kept there, you would have A) gigantic human suffering and B) progressive very deep radicalization -- very, very angry people -- and that is not in anybody's security interest."

Bangladesh, with a 580 km (360 mile) coastline on the Bay of Bengal, is acutely vulnerable to rising sea levels, cyclones and droughts.


John Ashton, special representative for climate change at Britain's Foreign Office, voiced concern that this could further destabilize a region already beset by conflict.

"Given the volatile nature of that region, given the global consequences of that volatility, yes I'm hugely worried by that," he told Reuters.
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COMMENTS:
Ok, there's more on this at Reuters, but the ballot kept saying it was too long. Bin Laden was quoted as saying:
""You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries," al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden wrote in a 2002 "letter to the American people."

by aya on Wed Jan 24, 07 3:22pm [+]
If Bin Laden actually said this, it would be ironic, given the nature of his work in oil exploitation and the damage that can do to the environment.
by aya on Wed Jan 24, 07 3:22pm [+]
Voted : yes
^ That's what I was thinking. It's not like he never made any money off of oil...
by Grumpy_Person on Wed Jan 24, 07 3:38pm [+]
Why don't the people who vote answer? Where is the person who voted no? Why don't you explain your answer?
by aya on Wed Jan 24, 07 4:00pm [+]
Voted : yes
There are meny factors that can increase the level of violence and terrorism. Climate change (which has been going on for 4½ billion years), plagues, volcanos, earthquakes, floods (hurricane Katrina comes to mind) and not voting Republican.
by _Beelzebubba on Wed Jan 24, 07 5:18pm [+]
^^ "meny"?
by _Beelzebubba on Wed Jan 24, 07 5:19pm [+]
Voted : yes
Nothing like fear to inflame tensions between the haves and the have-nots.
by Truthseeker013 on Wed Jan 24, 07 5:40pm [+]
Ha! If you don't drive a hybrid, the terrorists will win.

I wonder if the democrats will try this in 2008? Traditional fear mongering, very nice.

I'm sure osama bin laden will be further enraged at the US if his net worth drops from 200 million to 198 million. And likewise the saudi princes funding terrorism are just days away from starving, the slightest upset and they're out on the street.

Poverty doesn't cause terrorism, there are lots of poor people, only certain ones resort to terrorism on a significant scale. Ones belonging to a certain faith, which also produces rich and middle class terrorists as well.
by herzog on Wed Jan 24, 07 6:40pm [+]
Voted : yes
This certainly could happen.
by skylab on Wed Jan 24, 07 7:25pm [+]

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