Journalist Peter Schwartzstein on the link between climate change and conflict • FRANCE 24 English

From farmers-turned-pirates in Bangladesh to jihadists in Iraq using drought as a recruiting tool, a new book by environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores the link between climate and conflict. "The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence" tells the stories of those affected by climate-conflict crises around the globe. While Schwartzstein tells FRANCE 24 that climate violence is "mostly playing out in poorer parts of the world", he says it is also starting to affect wealthier regions, in parts of North America and Europe. A key takeaway from the book, he says, is that we are "systematically underestimating the amount of violence that is connected to climate change because we are not really looking at how climate change is acting on other drivers of instability like corruption, like inequality, like misinformation".
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[@mimikrya8794]

Climate-conflicts are two-way linked. You shoild talk more about the impact of the conflict on the climate: the increasing production and consumption of weapons, and the increasing destruction of infrastructures that will one day have to be rebuilt... For now, neither steel nor concrete is green, and even less tank fuel,...

[@guff9567]

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