Threat Level Rising: Climate Change, National Security and UK Political Action

Nov 29, 2024 | Tim Clack and Barry Gardiner
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Climate change is already impacting global food security. Desertification, drought, and floods, alongside new vectors for pests and expanding disease zones, are throwing global agriculture out of kilter. These stressors exacerbate pre-existing tensions between groups as economic vulnerabilities and the struggles for productive land increase. When overlaid with economic inequality and fragile governance, the result is invariably conflict.