OPINION

Failed states and the climate change factor

News, Jack Goldstone, Published on 02/12/2015

» As world leaders gather in Paris this week to address climate change, they will labour under the shadow of recent attacks by the Islamic State (IS). Yet as they think about climate issues, they should remember that the connection between climate change and the IS -- and more broadly, between climate change and political instability -- is not just a coincidence. It may instead be the key reality of the 21st century.