Global warming could cause a "world civil war" by exacerbating latent tensions between populations, say experts in a report released Monday, December 10, in Bali, during the international climate conference. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) study is released - no coincidence - on the day that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in Oslo to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC).
The melting of glaciers or the explosion in the number of "climate refugees" due to the rise of the oceans is likely to destabilize entire regions, explain the authors of the report, according to which "acting for the climate is acting for peace". The identified risk areas are numerous: southern Africa, the Sahel, the Mediterranean, the Indian subcontinent, China, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, the Andes and the Amazon.
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