Climate change is a security threat. Make it a foreign policy priority

Grist: In March of this year, researchers at U.C. Santa Barbara and Columbia published a paper linking climate change and extreme drought to the Syrian Civil War. It wasn’t the first time that scientists and economists had connected the dots between climate and violent conflict. It wasn’t even the first time that scientists had connected the dots between climate and conflict in Syria. “For Syria,” wrote the authors, “a country marked by poor governance and unsustainable agricultural and environmental policies,......

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