Climate change 'may put world at war'
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 23/04/2008
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Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world
wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a
leading defence think tank has warned.
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The Royal United Services Institute said a tenfold increase in
research spending, comparable to the amount spent on the Apollo space
programme, will be needed if the world is to avoid the worst effects
of changing temperatures.
Governments should be preparing for the worst
However the group said the world's response to the threats posed by
climate change, such as rising sea levels and migration, had so far
been "slow and inadequate," because nations had failed to prepare for
the worst-case scenario.