Rethinking Climate Change, Conflict and Security

Two-day international conference taking place at the Sussex Centre for International Security at the University of Sussex, 18th-19th October 2012.

What are the conflict and security implications of global climate change? This question has received widespread attention from policy makers in recent years, with most concluding that climate change will in all likelihood become a significant ‘threat multiplier’ to existing patterns of insecurity and discord. Academic debate has tended to be more divided, yet despite differences in emphasis a common set of assumptions have come to dominate contemporary academic and policy discourse on climate change and security.

Flashback: Hmm, this seems odd, if CO2 really does cause increased violence: "Violence is 1/500th of what it used to be"

Climate Change and Changing Behavior: What I Learned from Marilyn Cornelus, Stanford University - YouTube

[5-minute video] Helps us appreciate how to help others change their behavior with respect to mitigating climate change.

Climate change fiction melts away just when it's needed | Books | guardian.co.uk

As such, the portrayal of climate change in fiction might actually be a pretty accurate reflection of what's going on in the real world. We know about it, and we know it's a pretty damn serious problem, but engage with it directly? Maybe tomorrow. Maybe the day after tomorrow. Isn't someone else looking into it? We don't want to have this conversation, it seems; and neither do most characters in most novels being published.