Climate impacts like flooding, drought, rising sea levels, and the resulting food insecurity and population movements are “catalysts for instability and conflict,” according to the CNA Military Advisory Board. In an NPR interview, Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Stephen Cheney cited the 2012 insurrection in Mali as just one example of a situation that was brought on by drought, which forced the Tuareg to move north. “It dried up their crops, they had to move, and they had to make a living. They went to northern Mali, and that started the insurrection there,” he said. “We know for a fact, obviously, that climate change contributed to that drought.”
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