Analyst warns of looming global climate wars

The prospect of global wars driven by climate change is not something often discussed publicly by our political leaders.

But according to one of America’s top military analysts, governments in the US and UK are already being briefed by their own military strategists about how to prepare for a world of mass famine, floods of refugees and even nuclear conflicts over resources.

…Speaking about his latest book, Climate Wars, he (Gwynne Dyer)says there is a sense of suppressed panic from the scientists and military leaders.

“Mostly it’s about winners and losers, at least in the early phases of climate change,” he said.

…He says a fall in crops and food production means there will be refugees, people who are desperate.

“It may mean the collapse in the global trade of food because while some countries still have enough, there is still a global food shortage,” he said.

“If you can’t buy food internationally and you can’t raise enough at home, what do you do? You move. So refugee pressures – huge ones – are one of the things that drives these security considerations.”

…Dr Dyer explains the least alarmist scenario for the next couple of decades still involves enormous pressures on the US border.

“That border’s going to be militarised. I think there’s almost no question about it because the alternative is an inundation of the United States by what will be, effectively, climate refugees,” he said.

“They [US] are concerned actually about losing a lot of land and a lot of crop production within the United States itself.

ABC