Runaway climate change once seemed like it could spur violence. Now a different risk has emerged.By Robinson Meyer
NOVEMBER 23, 2022, 11:18 AM ETSHARE
Back in 2015, when I started covering climate change,climate warmeant one thing. At the time, if someone said that climate change posed a threat to the world order, you would assume they were talking about the direct impacts of warming, or its second-order consequences. Analysts and scholars worried over scenarios in which unprecedented droughts or city-destroying floods would prompt mass migrations, destabilizing the rich world or giving rise to far-right nationalism. Or they worried that a global famine could send food prices surging, triggering old-fashioned resource wars. Or they fretted oversocial scienceshowing that weather fluctuations could lead to revolutions and civil wars.
The world of 2015 is not the world of 2022. Countries have made remarkable…
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