How Climate Change Can Amplify Social, Economic, and Political Stresses

Janani Vivekananda | Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars | June 2011

"Rather than climate change being this single, direct causal factor which will spark conflict at the national level" Vivekananda said, these stressors "will shift the tipping point at which conflict might ignite". In places that are already weakened by instability and conflict, climate change will simply be an additional challenge.

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