Does Extreme Weather Cause War?

Photo: U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division wait to board a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during an air assault mission in the Al Jazeera Desert, Iraq, on March 22, 2006. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Insurgency -- Foreign Policy

Does extreme weather cause war? Don't count on it.



As the East Coast of the United States was pounded by a hurricane over the weekend, mere days after an earthquake had cracked monuments and upset lawn furniture from Virginia Beach to Baltimore, Mother Nature was once again front-page news across the country. So it was fortuitous that last week's issue of the scientific journal Nature included a much-talked-about article linking the wrath of nature to the wrath of man. "Climate Shifts Cause War" and "First Proof that Climate Is a Trigger for Conflict," the headlines suggested.



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My Comment: What is my view? I have studied wars and conflicts throughout my life, and I have found that it has been ideologies/religions//personal agendas/tribalism/sectarianism/racial and cultural conditions and situations that have brought about conflicts and wars .... not extreme weather.