{"id":251,"date":"2007-10-15T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T19:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/10\/15\/gw_and_peace\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T18:53:26","slug":"gw_and_peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/10\/15\/gw_and_peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change and World Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This post is by Sheryl Canter, Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/peace\/laureates\/2007\/\">Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> went to people fighting global climate change. What does fighting climate change have to do with world peace? Here&#8217;s the answer that Michael Oppenheimer, Ph.D., one of the team of authors of the IPCC&#8217;s 2007 reports and science advisor to Environmental Defense, gave in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/environment\/july-dec07\/nobel_10-12.html\">interview with PBS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A stable climate helps keep the peace. We see situations all around the world where shortages of the sorts of resources that will shrivel under a changing climate, like water for food, water for agriculture, are contributory factors in places like Darfur, the Horn of Africa, where instability is rife, and governments just can&#8217;t hold it together, and people die. That&#8217;s ultimately why this is justifiably a prize for peace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Sheryl Canter, Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense. This year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize went to people fighting global climate change. 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