You CAN'T Make This UP - Susan Rice: 'CLIMATE CHANGE Reason for Syrian Conflict!'

[TNHarley]

Susan Rice is one of the reasons we should be thankful that Vlad Putin is in charge.

LMAO

 

[ThoughtCrimes]

Another Brietbart.com hit piece to get the "faithful idiots" something to spread about like manure! For those with a bit of curiosity and favor truth, Rice's speech can be read here:

Remarks by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice on Climate Change and National Security at Stanford University - As Prepared for Delivery

Syria is mentioned TWICE in the entire address at Stanford University as posted on the WH website! Brietbart took a portion of one paragraph completely out of context in their usual manner of propagating propaganda. Damn disgusting of them and those useful idiots who spread these obvious distortions!

 

[Sally Vater]

The United States is being run by the Harvard faculty lounge.

 

[Pogo]

This isn't new background info. Syria suffered drought for several years, which drove rural people to the city looking for work, which put a strain on the social structure, et cetera.

Everything has causes, and they're usually complex.

Of course it may be new info for the TV mentality....

Sigh...

>> Except for a narrow belt along the Mediterranean, the whole country is subject to extreme temperatures that cause frequent dust storms and periodic droughts. Four years of devastating drought from 2006 to 2011 turned Syria into a land like the American “dust bowl” of the 1930s. That drought was said to have been the worst ever recorded, but it was one in a long sequence: Just in the period from 2001 to 2010, Syria had 60 “significant” dust storms. The most important physical aspect of these storms, as was the experience in America in the 1930s, was the removal of the topsoil. Politically, they triggered the civil war.

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Syria is not just a piece of land; it is densely populated. When I first visited Syria in 1946, the total population was less than 3 million. In 2010, it reached nearly 24 million. Thus, the country offered less than 0.25 hectares (just over a third of an acre) of agricultural land per person. Considering only “agricultural Syria,” the population is about five times as dense as Ohio or Belgium, but it does not have Ohio’s or Belgium’s other means of generating income. If the population were much smaller, Syria could have managed adequately but not, of course, richly.

The bottom line is that the population/resource ratio is out of balance. While there has been a marginal increase of agricultural land and more efficient cropping with better seed, neither has kept up with population growth. Moreover, as the number of people in the country has increased, they have been unable to agree on how to divide what they have. So it is important to understand how their “social contract”—their view of their relationship with one another and with the government—evolved and then shattered.

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Second, throughout its centuries of rule, the Ottoman Empire generally was content to have its subjects live by their own codes of behavior. It did not have the means or the incentive to intrude into their daily lives. Muslims, whether Turk or Arab or Kurd, shared with the imperial government Islamic mores and law. Other ethnic/religious “nations” (Turkish: millet) were self-governing except in military and foreign affairs. The following map is modern but shows approximately the traditional distribution of minority groups in enclaves scattered throughout the area that became Syria.

Columbia University Gulf 2000 Project/Bill Marsh and Joe Burgess
What the map does not show is that the same groups also moved into mainly Muslim cities and towns, where they tended to live in more or less segregated neighborhoods that resembled medieval European urban ghettos or modern American “Little Italys” or “Chinatowns.”

..... Four years of devastating drought beginning in 2006 caused at least 800,000 farmers to lose their entire livelihood and about 200,000 simply abandoned their lands, according to the Center for Climate & Security. In some areas, all agriculture ceased. In others, crop failures reached 75 percent. And generally as much as 85 percent of livestock died of thirst or hunger. Hundreds of thousands of Syria’s farmers gave up, abandoned their farms, and fled to the cities and towns in search of almost non-existent jobs and severely short food supplies. Outside observers including UN experts estimated that between 2 and 3 million of Syria’s 10 million rural inhabitants were reduced to “extreme poverty.”

As they flocked into the cities and towns seeking work and food, the “economic” or “climate” refugees immediately found that they had to compete not only with one another for scarce food, water, and jobs, but also with the existing foreign refugee population. Syria was already a refuge for a quarter of a million Palestinians and about 100,000 Iraqis who had fled the war and occupation. Formerly prosperous farmers were lucky to get jobs as hawkers or street sweepers. And in the desperation of the times, hostilities erupted among groups that were competing just to survive.

... And so tens of thousands of frightened, angry, hungry, and impoverished former farmers were jammed into Syria’s towns and cities, where they constituted tinder ready to catch fire. <<
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Much, much more at the link (warning: may lead to levels of understanding deeper than TV sound bite mentality)

 

[Sallow]

Link/reference?

There's an itty bitty teensy weensy link at the bottom of the OP.

Breitbart.

“In the years prior to civil war breaking out in Syria, that country also experienced its worst drought on record,” she said during a political speech at Stanford University. “Farming families moved en masse into urban centers, increasing political unrest and further priming the country for conflict.”

Drought? What Drought?

 

[Idadunno]

"In her 'most dramatic speech to date' about climate change, National Security Advisor Susan Rice suggests climate change was partially responsible for the conflict in Syria and represents a looming threat to the entire world."

I have not clicked and read the article but technically that is actually true. Syrian farmers, after fours years of drought, moved into the cities because they could no longer feed their families and the Syrian government did nothing to help the people. The cities became overcrowded, which starts civil strife, and then the city dwellers and the farmers demand the government aid the people. Assad did nothing, so they rebelled. A four year drought is not normal in case you are wondering. I suggest you do some research and enlighten yourself before making yourself look foolish online.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Another Brietbart.com hit piece to get the "faithful idiots" something to spread about like manure! For those with a bit of curiosity and favor truth, Rice's speech can be read here:

Remarks by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice on Climate Change and National Security at Stanford University - As Prepared for Delivery

Syria is mentioned TWICE in the entire address at Stanford University as posted on the WH website! Brietbart took a portion of one paragraph completely out of context in their usual manner of propagating propaganda. Damn disgusting of them and those useful idiots who spread these obvious distortions!

The site is not letting me copy and paste it, but she clearly states drought has led to the violence. As if there never has been a drought in world history.

 

[easyt65]

I have not clicked and read the article but technically that is actually true.

TECHNICALLY it's NOT true. It was Rice's premise that drought caused people to move closer to one another and FORCED them into conflict. Climate Change - Drought - may have caused them to MOVE, but it was their religious / political / customs / etc differences that caused the tension, division, and eventual rebellion and war....NOT Climate Change

 

[ThoughtCrimes]

Another Brietbart.com hit piece to get the "faithful idiots" something to spread about like manure! For those with a bit of curiosity and favor truth, Rice's speech can be read here:

Remarks by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice on Climate Change and National Security at Stanford University - As Prepared for Delivery

Syria is mentioned TWICE in the entire address at Stanford University as posted on the WH website! Brietbart took a portion of one paragraph completely out of context in their usual manner of propagating propaganda. Damn disgusting of them and those useful idiots who spread these obvious distortions!

The site is not letting me copy and paste it, but she clearly states drought has led to the violence. As if there never has been a drought in world history.

Here is the entire paragraph from Rice's speech, which I cited above, from which Breitbart contrived the entire hit piece:

"All of these consequences are exacerbated in fragile, developing states that are least equipped to handle strains on their resources. In Nigeria, prolonged drought contributed to the instability and dissatisfaction that Boko Haram exploits. The genocide in Darfur began, in part, as a drought-driven conflict. In the years prior to civil war breaking out in Syria, that country also experienced its worst drought on record. Farming families moved en masse into urban centers, increasing political unrest and further priming the country for conflict. In fact, last year, a Stanford research group determined that a rise in temperature is linked with a statistically significant increase in the frequency of conflict. There is already an unholy nexus between human insecurity, humanitarian crises, and state failure—climate change makes it that much worse." [Emphasis Added]

The actual context of that paragraph clearly is not what Brietbart or you wish to make it. Rice's own words only describes climate change as destabilizing, contributing and exacerbating factors to conditions in developing Nations and gives three relevant examples, with Syria being one.

The OP is a propaganda hit piece; nothing more and nothing less.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Link/reference?

There's an itty bitty teensy weensy link at the bottom of the OP.

Breitbart.

“In the years prior to civil war breaking out in Syria, that country also experienced its worst drought on record,” she said during a political speech at Stanford University. “Farming families moved en masse into urban centers, increasing political unrest and further priming the country for conflict.”

Here's a bigger link from politico...since you were trying to discredit it for coming from breitbart.

Susan Rice: Climate change 'an advancing menace'