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Climate Change Generates Human Conflict

How would the environment have a direct effect on people's behavior? It is true. Climate change and human conflict are interrelated. My mind has always been open to this possibility but sans evidence, I chosed not to write about it.

Not until I read the article of Dan Smith, the Secretary General of the International Alert of the United Kingdom in the October-December 2008 issue of the Asian Institute Management (AIM) Alumni Leadership Magazine (pages 18-19). Smith's "Climate change and conflict" showed that the environment is intertwined with man's behavior. It was an enlightening expose.

Smith wrote and I quote:
" One thing I want to emphasize is we're not simply talking about consequences of climate change-temperatures rise, therefore people fight- that is not the linkage we are making. Climate change is bad news in most parts of the world, and the form of bad news differs from place to place:if you have too much rain, there is going to be more, and if there is a little rain, there is going to be less...."

Smith has added too that the International Alert, where he works, has already identified forty-six (46) countries which face the risk of armed conlfict and fifty-six (56) are also at the high risk of polital instability. All because of climate change.

A revelation showing that indeed man has really caused his own downfall. First, he disrespected the environment and exploited it for his greed. Then he committed genocide for a distorted ideology, in the case of the ongoing Gaza war. Those who have no faith in God will question his misfortune and blame it to HIM.

What has greed made man? Power greed has also victimized nature for man had created chemical weapons to crush his perceived enemies, destroying all living things on earth. All these realities point to man's greed for power as the root cause of his own misfortune and the misfortune of others that he is capable of causing.

God has provided the environment to help man feed his own needs. But owing to man's insatiable appetite for power, he decided to control it for his own exclusive use, hence doing great injustice to the Creator of all beings.

Smith added: "Now as that (climate change) happens, part of what we will see, part of what we are already starting to see is that human habitat becomes less habitable; it will be less possible to grow crops, growing season will be shorter,land will be less fertile. How will people react to that?

Some will start leaving, some will

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