Climate, Conflict and Crisis

Photography by Adriana Mahdalova on Shutterstock. Article by Frank Giustra.

How climate change has fueled conflict between farmers and herders in Africa.

By now, most of us are keenly aware that climate change presents an existential threat to some forms of life on the planet, including us. But public outrage in North America has yet to match the level of danger climate change poses, and this may be due to the fact that our “self-extermination” is not imminent today, tomorrow or next month.

While most projections show some of the worst effects of climate change on the western world won’t kick off in earnest for decades, we’re already seeing impacts in parts of Africa and the Middle East when it comes to food production, access to water and armed conflict. […]

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