'“If you were to ask me—what are the impacts of climate change on conflict? I would say, don’t talk about drought,” said Jan Selby, director of the Sussex Centre for Conflict and Security Research at the University of Sussex in England. “I would say what we need to be talking about is decarbonizing the global economy, reducing carbon emissions in the global economy, which sooner or later will mean stopping taking oil and gas out of the ground. So far the whole discussion on climate change and conflict doesn’t mention this issue at all, which strikes me as utterly bizarre. Especially if we don’t get on with it soon and start making progress soon, the process of decarbonization is going to be a very conflict-ridden process.”' |