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Dennis Prager Podcasts

Boko Haram's Acts Of Terrorism: Caused By Climate Change?

Dennis Prager Podcasts

Salem Podcast Network

News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Can the kidnaping of school girls by Boko Haram t…

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0:30.2

This is a piece in the Guardian, The kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls in the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamburo and Gala

0:41.0

by the militant Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Boko Haram has shocked the world, but while

0:45.8

condemnations have rightly been forthcoming from a whole range of senior figures, less attention

0:52.2

has been paid to the roots of the crisis.

0:55.0

Instability in Nigeria has been growing steadily over the last decade,

0:59.0

and one reason is climate change.

1:07.0

And then the author of this Peace and The Guardian

1:11.0

says a recent study by the Conggressionally funded US Institute for Peace confirmed, quote,

1:16.0

a basic causal mechanism that links climate change with violence in Nigeria.

1:25.0

Poor responses to climatic shifts create shortages of resources such as land and

1:30.8

water. Shortages are followed by negative secondary impacts such as more

1:36.0

sickness, hunger, and joblessness. Poor responses to these in turn opened the door to conflict. When was this US thing?

1:47.0

It was founded in 1984.

1:50.0

1984. Yeah. Well it's a congressionally funded it wasn't Reagan.

1:55.0

And maybe it was I don't know all I can tell you is whenever you hear the word peace in an institution's name the odds are it is morally

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