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Week 40: The Scallop War, scientific alarm, and Hitler

Posted on 8th October 20188th October 2018 by Benno Hansen

In the English Channel, British and French fishermen have clashed in the Scallop War. In the absence of fishery management, climate change might lead to more fish wars, argues Kathleen McGinty.

Climate change will have large impacts on fish stocks, we must act now to limit global warming to 2°C and implement smart, adaptive fisheries management if we want a positive fisheries future. https://t.co/TFpA3o24rF pic.twitter.com/5eUMyLavhh

— EDF Oceans (@EDFOceans) August 29, 2018

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s new special report on 1.5°C warming is alarming. But the summary for policymakers is not nearly alarming enough, argues Bob Ward in The Guardian, as it doesn’t mention increased migration, increased risk of political instability and conflict, and several other issues.

The @IPCC_CH Special Report of Global Warming of 1.5°C is available at https://t.co/VzWQKiRRA2 This includes the Summary for Policymakers and chapters of the full report. #SR15 #climatechange #ParisAgreement pic.twitter.com/XbMhZtohxa

— IPCC (@IPCC_CH) October 8, 2018

Mentions of Hitler in current political debates are often quite tiring, but the lengthy, meticulous comparison of Europe in the 1930ies to current US affairs by WWII historian Christopher R. Browning – The Suffocation of Democracy in The New York Review of Books – is truly interesting. Browning concludes with some perspectives that are particularly unnerving in the light of the IPCC report:

“…several decades after Trump’s presidency has ended, the looming effects of ecological disaster due to human-caused climate change—which Trump not only denies but is doing so much to accelerate—will be inescapable. Desertification of continental interiors, flooding of populous coastal areas, and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, with concomitant shortages of fresh water and food, will set in motion both population flight and conflicts over scarce resources that dwarf the current fate of Central Africa and Syria. No wall will be high enough to shelter the US from these events.

Christopher R. Browning

In the US, a man was sentenced to three years in prison for setting fire to a road block while protesting the DAPL oil pipeline. The Sioux tribe supports the protests.

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