Johannesburg Mail & Guardian
"Climate Wars Looming"
"A changing climate is increasingly becoming a threat to world peace and stability, security and military experts have warned."
Yolani Groenewald: "As resources such as land, food and water become more scarce because of the impact of climate change, there are bound to be clashes, the experts say. Africa and South Africa are every bit as vulnerable to these conflicts.
"An international group of military experts, contracted by the Institute for Environmental Security in The Hague, warned that if the effects of climate change are not dealt with, it "will be very costly in the future". The experts serve on the institute's military advisory council..."
"Retired Indian air marshal AK Singh, who chairs the council, warned that: "Failure to recognise the conflict and instability implications of climate change and to invest in a range of preventive and adaptive actions will be very costly in terms of destabilising nations, causing human suffering, retarding development and providing the required military response..."
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