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Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict
2013-05-13 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes. But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to an increasingly intractable conflict, its underlying causes in a fatal convergence of energy, climate and economic factors remain little understood. The UN high commissioner for human rights has offered a conservative under-estimate of the...
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