Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Journalist Peter Schwartzstein on the link between climate change and conflict

Environment
Issued on: 15/10/2024 -
By:  
Carys GARLAND
Video by:  Carys GARLANDFollow

From the show    

From farmers-turned-pirates in Bangladesh to jihadists in Iraq using drought as a recruiting tool, a new book by environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein explores the link between climate and conflict. "The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence" tells the stories of those affected by climate-conflict crises around the globe. While Schwartzstein tells FRANCE 24 that climate violence is "mostly playing out in poorer parts of the world", he says it is also starting to affect wealthier regions, in parts of North America and Europe. A key takeaway from the book, he says, is that we are "systematically underestimating the amount of violence that is connected to climate change because we are not really looking at how climate change is acting on other drivers of instability like corruption, like inequality, like misinformation".

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