Climate Change Could Boost Incidence Of Civil War In Africa

Panic has been spreading through the hills and villages of north of the provincial capital, Goma
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From Science Daily:

Science Daily (Nov. 24, 2009) — Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, and published in the Nov. 23 online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The study, conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley as well as at Stanford University, New York University and Harvard University, provides the first quantitative evidence linking climate change and the risk of civil conflict. It concludes by urging accelerated support by African governments and foreign aid donors for new and/or expanded policies to assist with African adaptation to climate change.

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My Comment: These countries in the sub-Saharan region of Africa do not need climate change to continue the slaughter and wars that have engulfed these regions for years .... if not decades.

The problems of Africa has always been ethnic hatreds and tribalism, political corruption, and an environment that makes it next to impossible for free markets and innovation to take hold. It may be convenient for some of these tyrants to blame the weather for them performing dismally in improving the livelihood of their citizens .... and for researchers from Berkeley to back them up .... but the sad truth is that Africa has no one to blame but themselves for the terrible mess that they are in, and getting a handout from the West is not going to solve their problems.