Climate Wars
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The Pentagon has long seen climate change as a “threat multiplier,” a “stressor” that can take a volatile political situation and push it over the edge. YEARS correspondent Thomas Friedman witnesses this effect in three Middle Eastern countries: Egypt, Syria and Yemen.