How does climate change lead to violence?
Update: 2024-08-21
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On this bonus episode of Battle Lines we talk to Peter Schwartzstein, author of the upcoming book The Heat and the Fury. From ISIS training grounds in Iraq to the pirate-ridden waters of Bangladesh Peter discovers the unexpected ways in which climate change is feeding global unrest and conflict.
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Venetia Rainey (Host)
Peter Schwartzstein (Author, The Heat and the Fury)
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Reminds me of CS Lewis's essay Fern Seeds and Elephants - where experts blow a tiny issue to greater significance than a more obvious elephant in the room. Climate is obviously an influence on war and violence. It has ever been so. The question is whether it is getting worse through human actions. The interviewee talks (wrongly) of climate extremes worsening and seems to assume we can halt the warming. Dressed up with a few kernals of truth this is alarmist propaganda. Daily Telegraph FAIL