POL S 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Soil Retrogression And Degradation, Security Dilemma
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Reading summaries due next wednesday by 6pm to nectir forum. Head of state becomes a target - focused on. Makes a state a target when they have everything someone needs/wants. State is pressured to overuse their resource and sell it. Soil degradation, diminishing of crops, depletion of water supply. Kaplan: climate change in one part of the world can increase or cause ethnic fractures in other parts of the world. Then causes conflict because people are now coming into other countries (i. e. refugee crisis) Conflict over resources just adds to whatever issues there already were. Group fracturing - not all places are affected equally even though the same thing is happening. Resource scarcity leads to increased conflict between states. Internal security dilemma - schism between security and state. Religion impacted behavior in turkey"s slums (culture and society changing behavior) Climate change --> resource scarcity --> exposes weak governments shows how governments might be unable to solve problems that arise.
