PSCI 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mikhail Gorbachev, Constitutional Monarchy, East India Company
6 Dec 2016
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Why it"s hard to come to an agreement on environmental change: Reduces competitiveness; countries want to stay competitive. So many people involved means ambitions are low. Rob nixon; examines the threats of climate change, toxic drift, deforestation and how our inattention to such exacerbates the vulnerability of ecosystems and the poor which would gradually lead to conflict. Water pollution, agricultural land drying up, disappearance of fishing stocks, etc: Social effect: migration forces flocks of people to move and can cause fights over resources between different ethnic groups. Syrian civil war might be linked to climate change. There was a big drought in 2006/07 (background: from 2006-2010, the. Fertile crescent in syria experienced a major drought which is believed would not have been so extreme if not for human caused greenhouse gas emissions. The drought and unsustainable farming policies led to a massive depletion of groundwater needed for irrigation. )
