Special Issue of Current History Features Warning: Climate Change Portends Worldwide Conflicts

Monday October 29, 11:07 am ET
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- As global warming intensifies, severe storms, drought, and flooding could wreak havoc around the world. But "it may well be that the most costly and challenging consequence of climate change will be an increase in violent conflict and all the humanitarian trauma this brings with it."
So argues Michael T. Klare in the November issue of Current History, a special issue devoted to the effects of climate change on the international order.
Klare, a Hampshire College professor and author of the forthcoming Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, contends in his essay ("Global Warming Battlefields: How Climate Change Threatens Security") that emerging resource conflicts, collapsing states, and massive migrations will transform the global security landscape in coming decades.
Klare is available for interviews at 413-559-5563.
For complimentary copies, or to reach any authors, contact Alan Sorensen, 215-482-5465.
Also in the November issue:
-- Senator Barbara Boxer (chair, Environment and Public Works Committee)
asserts that America has been mostly missing in action when it comes to
international efforts to combat global warming.
-- Will Steffen (Australian National University) suggests climate
change may require rethinking humanity's relationship with nature.
-- Bryan Mignone (Brookings Institution) assesses prospects for
international cooperation on global warming.
-- David Wyss (Standard & Poors) analyzes the global costs of capping
emissions and considers which countries might emerge as winners and
losers from climate change.
-- Kelly Sims Gallagher (Harvard) warns that China, now the largest
aggregate emitter of greenhouse gases, lacks tools to address the
crisis.
-- Nathan Hultman (Georgetown) suggests how the global economy can be
weaned from reliance on fossil fuels.
The oldest US publication devoted exclusively to world affairs, Philadelphia, Pa.-based Current History was founded by The New York Times in 1914 and since the 1940s has provided an independent forum for scholars and specialists to analyze trends in every region of the world.