Martin O’Malley linked climate change to the rise of ISIS earlier this week. Conservatives pounced. Conservatives argue the opposite, that the rise of ISIS had nothing to do with climate changes in the Mediterranean.
I believe that climate change can contribute to the rise of destruction because it can take society completely by storm. One minute everything's normal and then your whole world can turned upside down forcing you to retreat into survival mode. I sympathize with ISIS almost because they were basically poor. They had no jobs, no electricity, no water, everyone turned into common thieves and fighters- recruiting new members daily, only making them bigger.
"The March 2015 study, “Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought,” found that global warming made Syria’s 2006 to 2010 drought two to three times more likely. “While we’re not saying the drought caused the war,” lead author Dr. Colin Kelley explained. “We are saying that it certainly contributed to other factors — agricultural collapse and mass migration among them — that caused the uprising.”
I believe that climate change can contribute to the rise of destruction because it can take society completely by storm. One minute everything's normal and then your whole world can turned upside down forcing you to retreat into survival mode. I sympathize with ISIS almost because they were basically poor. They had no jobs, no electricity, no water, everyone turned into common thieves and fighters- recruiting new members daily, only making them bigger.
"The March 2015 study, “Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought,” found that global warming made Syria’s 2006 to 2010 drought two to three times more likely. “While we’re not saying the drought caused the war,” lead author Dr. Colin Kelley explained. “We are saying that it certainly contributed to other factors — agricultural collapse and mass migration among them — that caused the uprising.”
In 2011, a major NOAA study concluded that “human-caused climate change [is now] a major factor in more frequent Mediterranean droughts.”
That’s because large parts of the most inhabited and arable parts of the planet — including the U.S. breadbasket — face the exact same heating and drying that have already affected the Mediterranean. The 2014 study, “Global warming and 21st century drying,” projected this bleak future..
