PHILADELPHIA--The November issue of Current History focuses on the looming threat of global warming and the potential consquences.
"It may well be that the most costly and challenging consequence of climate change will be an increase in violent conflict and all the humanitarian trauma this brings with it," says Michael T. Klare in the November issue of Current History, author and professor at Hampshire College. His essay ("Global Warming Battlefields: How Climate Change Threatens Security") contends that emerging resource conflicts, collapsing states, and massive migrations will transform the global security landscape in coming decades.
Also in the November issue:
-- Senator Barbara Boxer (chair, Environment and Public Works Committee)
asserts that America has been mostly missing in action when it comes to
international efforts to combat global warming.
-- Will Steffen (Australian National University) suggests climate
change may require rethinking humanity's relationship with nature.
-- Bryan Mignone (Brookings Institution) assesses prospects for
international cooperation on global warming.
-- David Wyss (Standard & Poors) analyzes the global costs of capping
emissions and considers which countries might emerge as winners and
losers from climate change.
-- Kelly Sims Gallagher (Harvard) warns that China, now the largest
aggregate emitter of greenhouse gases, lacks tools to address the
crisis.
-- Nathan Hultman (Georgetown) suggests how the global economy can be
weaned from reliance on fossil fuels.
The Philadelphia-based Current History was founded by The New York Times in 1914 and since the 1940s has provided an independent forum for scholars and specialists to analyze trends in every region of the world.
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