War Is the Climate Risk That Europe's Leaders Are Talking About

摘要

Among the 21st-century threats posed by climate change—rising seas, melting permafrost and superstorms—European leaders are warning of a last-century risk they know all too well: War. Focusing too narrowly on the environmental consequences of global warming underestimates the military threats, top European and United Nations officials said at a global security conference in Munich this weekend. Their warnings follow the conclusions of defense and intelligence agencies that climate change could trigger resource and border conflicts.