Here’s what you need to know about the war in Syria — and it’s not oil or religion. It’s something that we have all created together – the biggest refugee crisis in a generation…
Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011, the greater Fertile Crescent experienced the most severe drought in the instrumental record. And there is evidence that the 2007−2010 drought contributed to the conflict in Syria.
Studies have shown that extreme dryness, combined with other factors, including misguided agricultural and water-use policies of the Syrian government, caused crop failures that led to the migration of as many as 1.5 million people from rural to urban areas. This in turn added to social stresses that eventually resulted in the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011. In the past 4 years, over 4 million Syrians have fled their country, and over 7 million have been displaced.
“We are experiencing a surprising uptick in global insecurity… partially due to our inability to manage climate stress,” Columbia University professor Marc Levy, who conducts studies for US government agencies, said.
Below is a comic strip produced by Years of Living Dangerously and Symbolia Magazine that summarizes the Syrian crisis…
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