Wars
This entry was posted on 3/23/2008 10:15 PM and is filed under WAR,Water problems,Global Warming.
The worst two things: war and making large parts of our environment, where people are living, uninhabitable.
Every day we're doing both and it's likely to get worse, much worse.
There never was a good war or bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
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From an Associated Press article (October 2007):
"...the stresses of a changing global environment may heighten the 'danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.'" Norwegian committee of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
"'Climate change is and will be a significant threat to our national security and in a larger sense to life on Earth as we know it to be,' retired Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, former U.S. Army chief of staff, told a congressional panel last month."
"In some cases, potential backlashes from warming weren't foreseen even a few years ago. One example: The stunningly swift shrinking of Arctic Ocean ice in recent summers has drawn attention to looming international disputes over rights to the newly open seas."
"Leaders are growing nervous. At the U.S. Army War College last March, military and scientific specialists quietly convened in a colloquium on "Global Climate Change: National Security Implications." Among the topics discussed: the possible need for a new National Security Act to "oblige intergovernmental cooperation" on climate by future U.S. administrations."
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From ABC News (January 2008):
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Thursday to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year and take action to prevent conflicts over scarce supplies."
"He reminded business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum that the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan was touched off by drought....."
"He said a recent report identified 46 countries with 2.7 billion people where climate change and water-related crises create "a high risk of violent conflict" and a further 56 countries, with 1.2 billion people "are at high risk of violent conflict." The report was by International Alert, an independent peacebuilding organization based in London."
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In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus
