How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban

[rangerrebew]

How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban

By Cara Korte

August 20, 2021 / 12:02 PM / CBS News

Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change. The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry. And the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.

While agriculture is a source of income for more than 60% of Afghans, more than 80% of conflicts in the country are linked to natural resources, according to a joint study by the World Food Programme, the United Nations Environment Program and Afghanistan's National Environmental Protection Agency. In 2019, Afghanistan ranked sixth in the world for countries most impacted by climate change, according to the Germanwatch Global Climate Risk Index.

Over the last 20 years, agriculture has ranged from 20 to 40% of Afghanistan's GDP, according to the World Bank. The country is famous for its pomegranates, pine nuts, raisins and more. However, climate change has made farming increasingly difficult.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2021/08/20/cbs-news-it-is-not-bidens-fault-it-is-climate-change-how-climate-change-helped-strengthen-the-taliban/

[rangerrebew]

Where are the statistics on this magnificent study and who performed the study? 

[GtHawk]

Only in the sense that Biden timed his major F'up to coincide with the summer fighting season, otherwise it's just more babbling bullshit from fools.

[mountaineer]

Good news: Taliban spox says the terrorists are committed to tackling climate change
Posted at 9:38 am on August 25, 2021 by Sarah D.

We’ve been pretty tough on the Taliban here at Twitchy. On the surface, they seem like a pretty bad bunch of guys, what with the plundering, the raping, the murdering … but maybe we should hear them out.

Because if we give them a chance, they could do some real good in this world:

Taliban vow to tackle CLIMATE CHANGE and set out eco credentials amid civilian executions https://t.co/LQyQj6mN2G

    — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) August 25, 2021

This sounds promising, doesn’t it? ... Twitchy

[GtHawk]

Good news: Taliban spox says the terrorists are committed to tackling climate change
Posted at 9:38 am on August 25, 2021 by Sarah D.

We’ve been pretty tough on the Taliban here at Twitchy. On the surface, they seem like a pretty bad bunch of guys, what with the plundering, the raping, the murdering … but maybe we should hear them out.

Because if we give them a chance, they could do some real good in this world:
This sounds promising, doesn’t it? ... Twitchy

Just part of the Taliwhackers ongoing plan to return the entire globe to the middle ages they are so fond of.

[EdinVA]

So is she worried the price of her fix is going up?

Afghanistan produces more than 93% of the world's opium. The poppy (Papaver somniferum) from which this drug is derived is grown on a truly massive scale. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that approximately 450 thousand acres (700 square miles or two-thirds the area of Rhode Island) of Afghanistan is dedicated solely to this plant, resulting in the production of nearly 6000 metric tons of raw opium per year.
https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2009&issue=11000&article=00006&type=Fulltext