Week 47: Climate change creates poverty, alerts the armies, and a fake Black Friday picture

The climate crisis poses a constant threat to global security. This is a threat that we face, not years from now, but today. We owe it to our brave soldiers on the front lines, and at the ready at home & abroad, to recognize this threat & act to solve it. https://t.co/kXmTueR7Ry
— Al Gore (@algore) 19. november 2018

“We are the country most affected by climate change in the world. And when we see that thousands of young Hondurans have started migration caravans to Mexico or the US, it’s largely because it’s increasingly difficult for them to stay in rural areas” https://t.co/UmPKKmBH0l
— Alex Randall (@alex_randall) 24. november 2018

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a shopping spree.
The photo of our times, by @ClaudiaManzoPh pic.twitter.com/1CqkqQLkgS
— GeorgeMonbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) November 25, 2018

After Black Friday, British pundit George Monbiot nominates the picture of shoppers braving a flooded street with sale items as “the photo of our times”. Commenters assumed it was from Venice, where floods are common. It appears to be from earlier this month in Hong Kong, and depicts Chinese tourists shopping. Still quite a “photo of our time”!

By the way, you should follow Ecowar on Twitter.

Off Twitter for a change, Donald Trump made an official statement on the official White House website. The statement details his policy towards Saudi Arabia in the light of the Jamal Khashoggi murder. But it is also an unashamed admission that one thing overrules every other concern: oil.

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