Jun 18 2007
Darfur: All Global Warming’s fault
The reality is that the core of this story is little accurate. More on that in a second.
Climate change behind Darfur killing: UN's Ban
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday.
"The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change," Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.
UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 percent over the past two decades, he said, as a rise in Indian Ocean temperatures disrupted monsoons.
"This suggests that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming," the South Korean diplomat wrote.
Now take out all of the buzz words about climate change and man made global warming, and you find that the cause, according to the UN, is: Drought.
I don't doubt it. For centuries all over the earth there have been droughts, and accompanying them is social upheaval.
The fact is that it is useless to make a case for global warming as the cause of Darfur because it again distracts from the solution in Darfur.
"But what to do about the essential dilemma: the fact that there's no longer enough good land to go around?"
"Any real solution to Darfur's troubles involves sustained economic development," perhaps using new technologies, genetically modified grains or irrigation, while bettering health, education and sanitation, he said.
And there they get it right. Social changes require sociological changes and economic solutions. Not Carbon Credits. not CO2 reductions and the Kyoto Protocol.
So let's drop the grandstanding and all that, and deal with the real issues. Let's keep our eye on the ball.
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