Climate Security: Climate Change Will Create More Violent Extremism, If We Let It

Dec 15, 2015 | Jessica Leber, Co.Exist
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The protests and violent conflict in Syria that began in 2011 originally took U.S. security analysts by surprise. Early in the Arab Spring, the State Department had ranked Syria near the bottom of a list of Middle East and North African nations most likely to experience upheaval. Five years later, we have a hopelessly war-torn country, land occupied by ISIS, and the biggest refugee crisis since World War II.