Resource conflict and ecosystem diplomacy in bullet point updates – since 2008
During the first eleven months of 2018, almost five thousand people were killed and almost 29 million people affected in climate breakdown incidents, The Guardian recounts in an informative graphic. Islamic State has systematically wrecked the environment from territories they have fled. It’s yet another war crime, actually. “The worst thing is when you destroy…
Supply of neodymium, terbium, indium, dysprosium, praseodymium, other rare minerals – and silver – must grow twelvefold by 2050. Else the demand for production of solar panels, rechargeable batteries and other technologies needed for sustainable energies is not met. Furthermore, Europe and USA are overwhelmingly dependent on China, especially, as well as Turkey and Australia…
It’s COP24 times, so… The New Zealand military is preparing. Climate change will be one of the greatest security challenges for New Zealand Defence in the coming decades […] The links between climate change are indirect but demonstrable … [the impacts] will require more humanitarian assistance, and disaster relief, stability operations and search and rescue…
Remember the climate change report that the Trump administration released while most Americans were eating their Thanksgiving turkey? That report didn’t just mention costs of climate change. The security aspects were covered as well. “Climate change, variability, and extreme events, in conjunction with other factors, can exacerbate conflict […] droughts, floods, storm surges, wildfires, and…