Another “Global Warming is the cause of everything” story
Thanks to Erin for spotting this example of piling one assumption onto another to come to the answer you most fear…or want others to fear.
Global warming could destabilize “struggling and poor” countries around the world, prompting mass migrations and creating breeding grounds for terrorists, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council told Congress on Wednesday.
Climate change “will aggravate existing problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions,” Thomas Fingar said. “All of this threatens the domestic stability of a number of African, Asian, Central American and Central Asian countries.”
People are likely to flee destabilized countries, and some may turn to terrorism, he said.
