Global warming will make that look like a small band of visiting tourists.
Global warming will impact the poor far more than the rich, and there will be BILLIONS of refugees running towards borders.
One would hope it would be gradual and not as catastrophic as a bloody civil war, but a series of warming-fueled storms or a pronounced month-long heat wave could have similar effects.
At some point, nations will close borders.
Resource/Environmental wars are never apparent as such. Since they involve movements of entire ethnicities, they become ethnic wars that are actually resource wars where the haves vs have-nots to deal with the environmental or resource disaster are delineated along ethnic divides.
The Sudan crisis was explained to me as being fundamentally a water war in this way.
Global warming will make that look like a small band of visiting tourists.
Global warming will impact the poor far more than the rich, and there will be BILLIONS of refugees running towards borders.
One would hope it would be gradual and not as catastrophic as a bloody civil war, but a series of warming-fueled storms or a pronounced month-long heat wave could have similar effects.
At some point, nations will close borders.
Resource/Environmental wars are never apparent as such. Since they involve movements of entire ethnicities, they become ethnic wars that are actually resource wars where the haves vs have-nots to deal with the environmental or resource disaster are delineated along ethnic divides.
The Sudan crisis was explained to me as being fundamentally a water war in this way.