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    Is climate change to blame for the kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala?

    This piece in the Gaurdian argues that it is.   So does the  the Congressionally-funded US Institute for Peace.

    "…poor responses to climatic shifts create shortages of resources such as land and water. Shortages are followed by negative secondary impacts, such as more sickness, hunger, and joblessness. Poor responses to these, in turn, open the door to conflict."

    Many of the foot soldiers of Boko Haram, it is claimed, are people displaced by severe droughtand food shortages in neighbouring Niger and Chad and are motivate more by a need to survive than by any ideology.

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      Charles Pigden

      The Guardian’s Nafeez Ahmed is in broad agreement with the DOD-funded Center for Naval Analyses, which had just issued a report that Climate Change is a threat multiplier, which is causing and will help to cause ‘terrorism ‘ and ‘instability’ worldwide and is thus a threat to US interests. Ahmed seems to be rather more concerned about the immediate victims that the military policy wonks at the CNA Corporation, but their views about what is happening and what is likely to happen are broadly similar to his.

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