Lewis
Smith, Environment Reporter
Climate change will have a long-term
impact on the nation’s security as wars
break out over food and water supplies
around the world, a report said
yesterday.
Hundreds of millions of environmental
refugees will seek new places to live,
with many of them heading for Britain,
according to the report for the Oxford
Research Group.
The report said that security
services would be challenged
increasingly by the number of refugees,
and the Government would need to
consider stronger border controls.
Protests against companies that
continued to emit greenhouse gases were
possible as climate change intensified
and they might even provoke riots.
In other parts of the world the
pressures caused by global warming,
particularly through changes in rainfall
patterns and the disappearance of
glaciers, would provoke wars over
agriculture and water rights.
It was “almost certain” that, by
2050, droughts, food shortages and
flooding would lead to the mass movement
of up to 200 million environmental
refugees, the paper, An Uncertain
Future: Law Enforcement, National
Security and Climate Change, said.
Chris Abbott, a fellow of Bristol
University’s Centre for Governance and
International Affairs, said that
attempts to tackle the new problems with
old strategies would be doomed.
“If governments simply respond with
traditional attempts to maintain the
status quo and control insecurity they
will ultimately fail,” he said. “The
security consequences of climate change
will not just manifest themselves ‘over
there’, there will be domestic security
concerns for both developed and
developing nations alike.”
Photosynthesis worked just
fine before human
interference and will
continue to work in an era
of reduced (not eliminated)
carbon emissions. Unless you
are also arguing that the
internal combustion engine
has existed since the dawn
of time I suggest you
rethink your position.
Franklin Ettinger, Boston,
USA
Alternatively, as global
cooling kicks in over the
next 40 years, with Western
Europe totally dependent on
Russian gas, the Russians
will use the supply of gas
to Western Europe as a
political weapon, Far more
likely than the junk science
that predicts global
warming.
David G, Carshalton, surrey,
Oxford Resarch Group may
well be right but for the
wrong reasons. The present
insane rush to ban carbon
dioxide emissions will
itself provoke a dramatic
decline in crop, forestry,
and fishery yields, as it
will bring an end to the
photosynthesis from
atmospheric carbon dioxide
on which all food production
is dependent. The EU with
its absurd proposals, the
ORG and Chris Abbott will
all have much to answer for.
Tim Curtin, Canberra,
Australia
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Photosynthesis worked just fine before human interference and will continue to work in an era of reduced (not eliminated) carbon emissions. Unless you are also arguing that the internal combustion engine has existed since the dawn of time I suggest you rethink your position.
Franklin Ettinger, Boston, USA
Alternatively, as global cooling kicks in over the next 40 years, with Western Europe totally dependent on Russian gas, the Russians will use the supply of gas to Western Europe as a political weapon, Far more likely than the junk science that predicts global warming.
David G, Carshalton, surrey,
Oxford Resarch Group may well be right but for the wrong reasons. The present insane rush to ban carbon dioxide emissions will itself provoke a dramatic decline in crop, forestry, and fishery yields, as it will bring an end to the photosynthesis from atmospheric carbon dioxide on which all food production is dependent. The EU with its absurd proposals, the ORG and Chris Abbott will all have much to answer for.
Tim Curtin, Canberra, Australia