POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: United Nations Environment Programme, Marc Ravalomanana, Malagasy People
4 Mar 2019
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Climate change as a security threat: climate change is reducing the availability of water for drinking and agriculture. It is accelerating desertification, soil erosion, and the loss of arable land. Impacts on latin america in the next 50 years: rising climate change is a security menace, total agricultural production could fall anywhere from 12% 24, some countries" production could be nearly wiped out. In brazil, an estimated 46mm people are food insecure; such numbers will rise. Climate change as accelerant of instability: we"re already seeing migration of large numbers of people around the world because of food scarcity, water, insecurity, and extreme weather and this is set to become the new normal . Brig, gen, stephen cheney, us army: climate change is a strategic security threat that sits alongside others like terrorism and state- on-state conflict, but it also interacts with these threats.
