An unrecognized link needs to be brought to light with regard to Libya.\u00a0 Bear with me, we\u2019ll get there.<\/p>\n
During the summer of 2010, an unprecedented drought and heat wave cruised across the Russian bread-basket.\u00a0 That drought and heat wave were a result of climate change.\u00a0 It also sent wheat yields plummeting \u2013 and drove the global price of wheat, a common commodity, way up.<\/p>\n
Approximately 70% of the diet in North Africa consists of bread.<\/p>\n
Food insecurity is a common cause of conflicts<\/a>, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff recognized this several years ago.\u00a0 They even spoke out about it last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Libyan rebellion \u2013 and many of the others that have rocked the region these last few months \u2013 began with food protests and riots.<\/p>\n In the case of Libya, there was also another problem \u2013 water insecurity.\u00a0 Libya has been drying out, giving more ground to desert, and this has knock-on effects in food insecurity and causes localities to suffer friction against one another (a fact that Quaddafi has taken advantage of, playing tribes off against one another for decades).<\/p>\n When Tunisia blew, it sparked Cairo, which sparked Libya.<\/p>\n This is exactly the socio-political outcome predicted by climate change scientists more than 30 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n So all you folks who love to think that climate change is just some big hoax that puts money in the pockets of scientists, I got a couple points for you:<\/p>\n This set of events should be viewed with severe alarm by everyone who connects these dots.\u00a0 Because the winds of climate change haven\u2019t finished blowing.\u00a0 India and Pakistan could just as easily been part of all this.<\/p>\n And unlike these North African nations, both of them hate one another already.\u00a0 Both of them have fought wars over contested territory (Kashmir).<\/p>\n And both of them have nukes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (*contrary to the average Red-stater or his\/her congressional mouthpiece, who seem to think “it’s not happening” or “la la la” are appropriate responses, or at best who want to have things just stay the same as they are.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An unrecognized link needs to be brought to light with regard to Libya.\u00a0 Bear with me, we\u2019ll get there. During the summer of 2010, an unprecedented drought and heat wave cruised across the Russian bread-basket.\u00a0 That drought and heat wave … Continue reading \n