Hot and Bothered: Climate Changes Affect Human Conflict
An analysis of 60 studies on climate change and its effects on human conflict shows that upswings in temperature and rainfall create measurable increases in violence in societies around the world, both today and thousands of years ago. The study is the most extensive examination yet of the plethora of papers on climate change and its effects on society.
The challenge in creating a unified picture of climate’s effects on violence has been that the work spans all kinds of disciplines, from archaeology to history to economic theory, and methodology varies greatly between studies. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton analyzed the most rigorous studies in the field, selecting only those where clear causation of climate to violence had been proven.
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