Climate Change And Violence Linked, Breakthrough Study Finds

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post



Shifts in climate change are strongly linked to human violence around the world, according to a comprehensive new study released Thursday by the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University.

The research, which was published in Science, examined 60 previous studies from all major regions of the globe. The results suggest that changes such as drought, flood and high temperatures strongly correlate with spikes in conflict.

Researchers noted examples including increased domestic violence in India and Australia, assaults and murders in the United States and Tanzania, ethnic violence in Europe and South Asia, land invasions in Brazil, police violence in the Netherlands and civil conflicts throughout the tropics.

The biggest culprit: higher temperatures. Out of 27 modern societies studied, all 27 showed a positive relationship between higher temperatures and violence.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/climate-change-and-violence_n_3692023.html

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Could explain these guys too...

[Auggie]

1. Just wait until people fight over food and water

[limpyhobbler]

3. yeah. This is only the very beginning of a long hot future. nt

[Baclava]

4. isn't that why we have video games teaching our kids how to survive?

The Last of Us

[Amonester]

11. They don't teach them how to survive.

They just teach them how to become good consumers (of any new game gimmick they put to market).

[Rebellious Republican]

2. I don't think a study....

needs to be done to find this study would also correlate to the redistribution of wealth that is happening. Prepers have nothing the on the worlds wealthy elite hoarding all the money. They are building their fiefdoms because they do know what is coming. They will own everything, guarded by their private armies. People would call me a conspiracy nut.

[zbr6]

5. Careful

If you start going around telling people that the climate is to blame violence then it could become an affirmative defense to violence.

"It wasn't my fault, I shot because it was hot outside" -George Z

[Erda]

6. I think consciousness influences weather . . .

and that, collectively, we help create our environmental conditions. The Buddhist term for this is "esho funi," the oneness of oneself and one's environment.

[olddad56]

8. well stated.

[former9thward]

7. The murder rate has consistently been going down in the U.S. since 1991.

Other violent crime is also down. Is that because of climate change?

[olddad56]

9. I don't think that the people killing people on the behalf of the US govt is going down.

[former9thward]

10. Well its gone down in Iraq.

Other places not so much.