thousands of people. The research
If the world is not prepared for the
provides the most detailed look yet at
consequence of climate change like
how climate change is already helping
erratic drought and flood then it will
to start violent political unrest.
have
many
more
such
political
implication across the globe. After
Solomon
Hsiang,
a
University
of
examining meteorological data, the
California, Berkeley professor who has
researchers
deciphered
studied the role of climate change in
variability
violence said "Up until now we've
account for the trends in wind, rain, and
understood and established that changes
heat that led to the massive drought. All
in climate may affect human conflict in
these factors, combined with high
the future. But everything until now has
unemployment and bad government
stopped short of saying climate change
policies helped Syria into violence.
alone
was
that
natural
unlikely
to
is already having an effect,".
(Source National Geographic)
The study acknowledge that many
factors led to Syria's uprising, including
4. New UN-Water Policy released
corrupt leadership, inequality, massive
population
growth,
and
the
In Oct 15 UN-Water released a new
government's inability to curb human
policy
suffering. But the report, published in
Discrimination and Inequalities in
the Proceedings
Academy
of
entitled, Eliminating
the
National
Access to Water and Sanitation. At
Sciences,
compiled
present, nearly 663 million people still
of
statistics showing that water shortages
live
without
access
to
improved
in the Fertile Crescent in Syria, Iraq,
drinking water sources, roughly 2.4
and Turkey killed livestock, drove up
billion do not have access to safe
food prices, sickened children, and
sanitation, and nearly 1,000 children
forced 1.5 million rural residents to the
under five years old die every day
outskirts of Syria's jam-packed cities—
because of water and sanitation-related
just as that country was exploding with
disease.
immigrants from the Iraq war.
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