More importantly, we should be very careful in assigning blame for war to any aspect of the climate. In a recent 2019 study, researchers examined sixteen different factors that drive the risk of conflict. When the scientists ranked that list in terms of influence, climate came in fourteenth, behind far more important factors like poor development, population pressure, and corruption. The scientists concluded: “Other drivers, such as low socioeconomic development and low capabilities of the state, are judged to be substantially more influential, and the mechanisms of climate-conflict linkages
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