1.0Climate Change Dispatchhttps://climatechangedispatch.comThomas Richardhttps://climatechangedispatch.com/author/ccdeditor/Flashback 2014: 'Why Climate Change Had No Impact on the Syrian Uprising'rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="W75El5xbyv"><a href="https://climatechangedispatch.com/flashback-2014-why-climate-change-had-no-impact-on-the-syrian-uprising/">Flashback 2014: ‘Why Climate Change Had No Impact on the Syrian Uprising’</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://climatechangedispatch.com/flashback-2014-why-climate-change-had-no-impact-on-the-syrian-uprising/embed/#?secret=W75El5xbyv" width="600" height="338" title="“Flashback 2014: ‘Why Climate Change Had No Impact on the Syrian Uprising’” — Climate Change Dispatch" data-secret="W75El5xbyv" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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Serious people speculated that climate change had ravaged Syria and was behind the drought that preceded the uprising. No matter that the reality is that those who attribute any one disaster to climate change are on ground no firmer than Councillor David Silvester in meteorological terms. But in Syria to speculate about climate change was to create a mystery where none existed. Despite an abundance of water, between 2006 and 2010 there was a serious drought, which displaced more than 1.5 million subsistence farmers, depriving them of ninety percent of their income. The major cause was a depletion of groundwater. In the new "open" economy after Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father, the regime's retainers were freed of restraint; they drilled more water than was sustainable to enhance their short-term gain. This happens in partially transformed economies where the monopolised corruption of the State becomes decentralised.https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_syria.jpg