Climate change and security issues

Washington Post:

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that global climate change will worsen food shortages and disease exposure in sub-Saharan Africa over the next two decades, creating operational problems for the Pentagon's newest overseas military command.

"Without food aid, the region will likely face higher levels of instability, particularly violent ethnic clashes over land ownership," probably creating "extensive and novel operational requirements," for the fledgling U.S. Africa Command, according to a National Intelligence Assessment on the security implications of climate change by the National Intelligence Council.

...

Africa's food problems have little to nothing to do with climate change. They are a combination of incompetence and deliberate policies of man made famine. In both Somalia and Sudan the famines are a result of deliberate war strategies and are not a by product of war. Factions calculate that starving their enemy and their families is an effective way to defeat them. That is why aid groups who try to feed these people are attacked and the food is stolen.

Mugabe's deranged "land reform" has resulted in starving his people. If you put farmers who know what they are doing back on the land, Zimbabwe could be a food exporter again.

To blame these problems and shortages on climate change is to ignore the elephants in Africa. There are some leaders on that continent who are willing to do some inhumane things to impose their will. That is a far bigger problem than the climate.