CANADA: Forget mushroom clouds: It’s the global fallout from what’s happening to the ones that grow in the ground we should be worried about, a new report for Britain’s Foreign Office asserts.
Global warming-induced food and water shortages may cause mass migration, competition for resources and state failure, providing fertile ground for conflict and terrorism, analysts warn in the report released earlier this week.
Climate Change, A Risk Assessment, a global team of scientists, policy analysts and financial and military risk experts painted a grim picture of mankind’s future on a warmer planet.
“It seems likely that high degrees of climate change would pose enormous risks to national and international security,” reads the report.
“Extreme water stress, and competition for productive land, could both become sources of conflict. Soon, today’s refugee problems may seem trifling compared to the numbers of fugitives fleeing climate change-related food and water scarcity and conflict.”
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