The Patriot Post® · Global Warming & Kidnappings

The UK Guardian thinks they’ve figured out what’s behind the egregious kidnappings in Nigeria. According to a recent article, the “roots of the crisis” are directly linked to … global warming. “Instability in Nigeria … has been growing steadily over the last decade – and one reason is climate change,” they write. “In 2009, a UK Department for International Development (Dfid) study warned that climate change could contribute to increasing resource shortages in the country due to land scarcity from desertification, water shortages, and mounting crop failures. A more recent study by the Congressionally-funded US Institute for Peace confirmed a ‘basic causal mechanism’ that ‘links climate change with violence in Nigeria.’ … Africa Review reported that many Boko Haram foot soldiers happen to be people displaced by severe drought and food shortages in neighboring Niger and Chad. Some 200,000 farmers and herdsman had lost their livelihoods and, facing starvation, crossed the border to Nigeria.” They conclude, “[T]he hundreds of innocent girls kidnapped in Nigeria are not just victims of Islamist fanaticism; they are also victims of failed foreign, economic and security policies tied to our infernal addiction to black gold.” Considering the climate’s always changing, we suppose the world’s stuck with terrorism forever. More…