By 2015 it had pushed over a million Syrian subsistence farmers off their land - that had desertified - and into Syria’s cities, particularly Damascus and Aleppo. The steady warming and drought in that area, though, never let up and the desert in North Africa relentlessly continued to eat up millions of acres of food-producing land, particularly across Syria. It sparked what we referred to then as the Arab Spring, that lasted through most of 2011. On December 17 of that year a street vendor in Tunisia, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire to protest the high cost of the wheat he needed to make the foods he and his peers sold, and the harassment of police against their protests. Worldwide prices of staple foods, particularly wheat, exploded. A La Nina caused crop failures in Argentina and Peru. The fall of that year saw unusually severe rainfall across the wheat-growing parts of Canada, cutting that nation’s wheat harvest, along with drought across Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and China. The current rise-of-rightwing-fascism crisis building in Europe began in 2010 and started with global climate change. The way it’s played out gives us a glimpse into our future - and the future of democratic republics all across the world - as the global climate emergency and the refugee crisis associated with it grows more severe over the next few years. Odds are, though, he was just trying to protect his deepwater ports it wasn’t until the crisis developed that he realized how he could exploit it to overthrow liberal democracies in the EU. If Putin wanted to destroy democracy in Europe (and he does), back in 2015 he couldn’t have picked a better strategy. The issue that tipped it over the edge was immigration driven by climate change. The government of the Netherlands fell last week.
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