“You always have a higher potential for violent conflict when the survival conditions of groups of people are threatened. […] if all these scientists and climate researchers are right, or even close to right, what does it mean for greater potential for violent conflict? I think the answers are not encouraging.”
“My belief is that we will see a renaissance of violent conflict in the 21st century, and that many of these conflicts will spring from climate change.”
“Ideology will always be a surface-level justification for conflict, but if you look deeply at the source of future conflicts, I think you’ll see a basic resource conflict at the bottom of it all.”
Read Vox.com / How climate change could lead to more wars in the 21st century.