Sorry for the shape of my blog, the colors have been screwy for months and I need to fix it. I am busy trying to finish a bunch of different papers before the end of the month so the blog has not been a priority.
The "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" is getting a lot of news coverage for the wrong reasons. Some of the prescriptions and claims the report makes are accurate, others are not. This claim identified by the NYTimes really bugs me since it is not based on facts at all.
"The new report describes a world riven by increased conflict over scarce food and water supplies and threatened by so-called rogue states and terrorists, widening gaps between rich and poor and an uneven impact of global warming."
I recently found this piece online written by Idean Salehyan and it provides a simple review of the literature on environmental conflict and the dangers of focusing on the potential of enivromental conflict rather than practical political solutions. He notes: "Additionally, focusing on climate change as a security threat that requires a military response diverts attention away from prudent adaptation mechanisms and new technologies that can prevent the worst catastrophes."
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