The link between climate change and increases in warfare is not just a speculation about the future. It’s an established historical fact.
A new study examined the circumstances of 899 wars fought in China over the course of over 9 centuries. They found a correlation between temperature changes and the frequency with which wars were fought. The authors of the study suggest that changes in agricultural productivity related to these shifts in climate created social strains that made warfare more likely.
This historical correlation suggests that climate change is likely to lead to increased warfare in our own future. If we can decrease the extent of climate change produced by human industrial activity, we stand a good chance of increasing the chance for peace.
It just so happens that progressives are both for peace and for the environmental measures needed to reduce the impact of climate change. For this reason, America’s national interest will be best served by electing a progressive President in 2008.
(Source: Live Science, July 9, 2007)
