Although the IPCC is a UN body, the Security Council sort of putters along talking about all the other ways that we in our artificial groups known as nation states create conflict with one another. But now they have actually acknowledged that climate change is a serious challenge which will create even more and bigger conflict. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15256444,00.html
Gwynn Dyer wrote a whole book on this and did a TV series several years ago. Climate change will force people to fight over water resources, flee their homes, and generally try to survive, even if it is at their neighbour's expense. Being Canadian and living next to water-hungry Americans, I should be nervous; however, I don't think the US will ever have to use force to get our resources. We've always been all too happy to sell them in the past.
The current situation in Somalia is the worst in 20 years. And the last 20 years in Somalia have been hell. So the UN has it right. We are going to see more death due to human conflict started because of climate change. Look for refugees showing up at a seaside near you.
Some say, "Think positive." But a rational perspective on the state of the world can only come to one conclusion: We're doomed!
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