How Can Climate Change Help Us Build a More Peaceful World? [Video]
Publisher: TEDxMidAtlantic
Author(s): Florian Krampe
Date: 2026
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Renewable Resources
A cracked riverbed, a drought, people on the move — and the headline writes itself: climate change breeds war. Florian Krampe has spent his career in the places that story is told about, and he thinks it's not just lazy but dangerous. It turns people into "dominoes waiting to fall in a warming climate," strips them of agency, and quietly excuses us from looking at what actually drives violence. The threat he documents is real — water weaponized, wells destroyed, even dams seized — but the easy climate-conflict narrative, he argues, misreads it.