Caltrops - ELECTION WATCH 2008





	[quote name="Jhoh Clbbl O_____O"]<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2175937/nav/tap3/">http://www.slate.com/id/2175937/nav/tap3/</a> [quote]The idea of a connection between conflict and climate change is fairly new, and one that had been mostly relegated to academic journals until earlier this year. Then, in June, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon went on record to suggest global warming as a cause for the fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan. He pointed out that warming in the tropical and southern oceans, fueled in some part by climate change, led to a decades-long drought and clashes between herders and farmers over the degrading land. When a rebellion broke out against the central government, Sudan's leaders fought back by arming and supporting the herders against the farmers—and the entire region fell into war.[/quote] We are complicit in homicide on a massive scale that cannot be corrected (also feed me a stray cat). [quote]Other early hot spots for warming-related conflict are likely to be in sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Caribbean—<b>places where institutions are weak, infrastructure is deficient, and the government is incompetent or malevolent.</b>[/quote] Just. [quote]And Canada and Denmark take turns pulling up each other's flag on Hans Island, a stretch of icy rock the size of a football field. These countries may be arguing over small fries right now, <b>but what happens when oil is at stake?</b>[/quote] Canada will find a way to use leaves to completely subvert the Geneva convention, and then we'll all be sorry. Except for America, everyone will be sorry they did not bomb millions of innocent Iraqi civilians for that beautiful oil when they had the chance. Now it is too late for Canada (you have to kill at least 50,000 innocent civilians in the middle east to earn oil, push the right bumper to change weapons, choo keek). [quote]David Zhang, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, scoured China's dynastic archives for records of war and rebellion and compared them with historical temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere. In the span between the 11th and 20th centuries, Zhang counted 15 periods of intense fighting. All but three of them occurred in the decades immediately following a period of unusual cold.[/quote] So this "climate change" could actually be global cooling. [quote]In his study, Zhang saw a lag of 10 to 30 years between the temperature shifts and the outbreaks of war—it takes time for a society to deplete its resources and for tensions to build.[/quote] It could even take up to 100 years. It could even take up to 135 years where only a dumb fuckin newb still punishes for TKs. [quote]<b>In the modern world</b>, it will be the poor countries that suffer the first serious effects.[/quote] This would've been a great opportunity to mention something about great leaders (such as buhs, the greatest president of the 21st century). [quote]Drought-stricken Australia can spend billions on wind and solar-powered desalinization plants, but the Pakistanis who rely on melting glaciers for their water supply will be able to do nothing but suffer the shortages.[/quote] If all the glaciers are melting, isn't that a good thing? [quote]In Darfur, the drought has eased, but water remains scarce; now U.N. officials are scratching their head over how to provide each of the planned 26,000 peacekeepers with at least 85 liters a day. (Meanwhile, humanitarian groups struggle to provide the displaced with enough water for drinking and cooking.)[/quote] As long as they don't use the water for eating meat, then there will have been no point (you arrogant ass you've killed us THAT'S FROM HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER). So really, Darfur can't even manage water? The UN is the greatest evil imposing their will on innocent countries that DIDN'T EVEN DO NUTHIN (YOU THINK YOU TUFF!!!!!!!?). Also, black helicopters.[/quote]