Climate Change as Global Security Threat

Author : Shrila Pokhariyal

Source : OpinioJuris

Introduction

Climate change has made it more difficult for both humankind and wildlife to survive. Increased and more destructive droughts, storms, heat waves, rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and increase in global temperatures are directly injuring animals, ruining their habitats, and having a disastrous impact on people's lives and societies. It's worth noting that there are interrelated effects of climate change on both traditional and global security. Climate change is not only a concern to human security since it puts human lives in peril, but it has also emerged as a major driver of migration and ongoing conflicts, both of which are serious security risks. Concerns about the implications of climate change have grown as fresh scientific evidence becomes available and global actors see its immediate consequences in environmental catastrophes.

 

The world is on course for 2022 to be between the fourth and eighth warmest year since records began in the middle of the 1850s, following a marginally colder 2021 on the surface of the Earth. The first quarter of 2022 has seen unprecedented warming in a variety of places, including record-breaking heatwaves in both poles, despite the fact that it is just the fifth warmest year in history. In March 2022, temperatures in parts of southern Asia, including much of China and India, reached record highs.

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*Shrila Pokhariyal is a Post Graduate Student from AIIS, Amity University, Noida.