The Role Of Climate Change In Northern Africa And The Middle East
In Northern Africa and the Middle East, where political unrest has caused violent civil wars and riots, climate change has deteriorated people’s lifestyles and drastically changed the weather.
According to Christopher Schär, a rise in temperature and humidity around the Persian Gulf will create extreme conditions that are intolerable to humans within the next century. Statistically, with the temperature rise of 0 .65°C for the past century, nearly 200 million people are living in regions that are at risk of sinking below sea level by the end of the century. Stadium construction workers in Qatar unfortunately lost lives due to such high temperatures in Doha, and the Sahara Desert is keep expanding due to the aggravation of desertification that
has taken away forests and farmlands in Africa.
In places where effects of climate change are explicit, political unrest has always taken place because citizens cannot conform to the government that often avoid dealing with the damages from climate change. For instance, the Arab Spring revolutions took place in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia several years ago since the dictators could not effectively deal with massive crowds from rural areas that suddenly settled in cities and caused overpopulation. In addition, Syria has suffered from an ongoing civil war against the al-Assad regime as al-Assad has maintained his authoritative rule even after a long-term, catastrophic drought. Based on these coincidences, one can easily assume the geographical significance that factors in when one overhauls the correlation between social instability and climate change.
According to the climatologists at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, climate change already has affected weather in the Arabian and Northern African region. If this devastating geographic trend continues along the equator, human population residing around the line will
According to Christopher Schär, a rise in temperature and humidity around the Persian Gulf will create extreme conditions that are intolerable to humans within the next century. Statistically, with the temperature rise of 0 .65°C for the past century, nearly 200 million people are living in regions that are at risk of sinking below sea level by the end of the century. Stadium construction workers in Qatar unfortunately lost lives due to such high temperatures in Doha, and the Sahara Desert is keep expanding due to the aggravation of desertification that
has taken away forests and farmlands in Africa.
In places where effects of climate change are explicit, political unrest has always taken place because citizens cannot conform to the government that often avoid dealing with the damages from climate change. For instance, the Arab Spring revolutions took place in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia several years ago since the dictators could not effectively deal with massive crowds from rural areas that suddenly settled in cities and caused overpopulation. In addition, Syria has suffered from an ongoing civil war against the al-Assad regime as al-Assad has maintained his authoritative rule even after a long-term, catastrophic drought. Based on these coincidences, one can easily assume the geographical significance that factors in when one overhauls the correlation between social instability and climate change.
According to the climatologists at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, climate change already has affected weather in the Arabian and Northern African region. If this devastating geographic trend continues along the equator, human population residing around the line will