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Published by BG on Monday, June 18, 2007 at 8:24 AM.little green footballs: UN Secretary General: Global Warming Causes Darfur Genocide
New UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon zeros in on the reason for the massacres in Darfur: Climate change behind Darfur killing: UN’s Ban.
How could we not have seen it before? It’s so obvious.
Is it entirely inconceivable that the Secretary General has a legitimate point? Before the severe droughts that have plagued sub-Saharan Africa, there was enough land for everyone to farm and herd in peaceful coexistence. Once the droughts hit and land became unusable, that's when the fighting started.
Granted, there's always going to be more to a severe crisis such as this than could possibly be summed up in two or three sentences, but it's not entirely illegitimate to point to squabbling over natural resources as the possible genesis of something like this.
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