Background paper for the World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report by Alex Evans on whether resource scarcity and climate change will cause increased violent conflict (September 2010)
Let’s make climate a culture war!
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...