Prince Charles Blames Global Warming for ‘this Horror in Syria’

PRINCE CHARLES: "In fact, there is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land because water ran out, their crops failed. Increasingly, they came into the cities already full of Iraqi refugees from that horrible crisis. This combined created a very difficult situation. It is bad enough now with refugees, but think what it will be like if we do not deal with the problem which is actually helping to cause it because the conflict often comes from movement of people as a result of not being able to survive."
MILLS: "Are you suggesting there is a link between climate change and conflict and terrorism?"
PRINCE CHARLES: "Absolutely. It is. I'd say that only in the last few years the Pentagon has started to pay attention to this because it has a huge impact on what is happening. The difficulty is for us to get this point across. If we just leave it and say, well -- obviously, the endless problems will arise all over the place if we deal with them in the short term.We never deal with the underlying root cause, which regrettably is what we are doing to our natural environment. And whether we like it or not, we depend on that environment. Every year you hear how temperatures are increasing, there is more rainfall than has ever been before in one day. This is a trend, regrettably, and we need to grasp this with a sense of real urgency."