 |
Source: Re: Hot Spots of Global Change….(Photo Essay)
|
Last week a ten year old boy was killed after a rocket was
fired at a school in the Nigerian city of Jos.
Over one hundred more people have been killed in the past
two weeks amid the ongoing ethno-religious violence in across Plateau State, of
which Jos is the capital.
Responses and accusations have abounded over the political
and cultural reasons for the violence but little attention is being paid to one
of the chief catalysts behind the conflict: climate change.
Climate change is a driver of conflict. Scarcity of resources, be they farmable land,
water or livestock, is creating mass migrations and antagonising pre-existing
tensions in a vicious circle.
Variability in food production and prices leads to social
unrest while social unrest itself exacerbates the instability in food
production and local investment. This
cyclical crisis is evident in Plateau State and beyond in the Sahel region of
West Africa.
Continue reading at Nigeria’s climate of violence | RTCC –Responding to Climate Change.
No comments:
Post a Comment