Climate change wars are coming and building walls won’t help, top general warns

According to Major General Munir Muniruzzaman, chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council On Climate Change (GMACCC), climate change could potentially spark major wars between the nations “completely distabilising” the world and forcing millions of people to become refugees. And countries with “narrow nationalistic instincts” that are preventing refugee access by building walls will only add up to the problems.

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He added, although countries have done a lot of talking about global warming and how to deal with the problems it brings along, there did not seem “much action” taken about it.

The GMACCC was set up in 2009 to investigate the security implications of climate change and its members include serving and retired military officers from around the world. It has formerly been led by the UK’s Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti and Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, a former US Marine.

Prefacing to the United Nations climate summit in Marrakesh next mont, General Muniruzzaman said it was time to focus on the promises made on the Paris Accord, while global warming is already flooding and drying up the world, risking people’s health and financial security.

“In our analysis, we are seeing the risk is now becoming all-pervasive from climate change in the sense that it is touching multiple sectors … many of the sectors are being gravely challenged. In some areas of the world, some of the issues we are touching on are becoming so severe they hold tremendous conflict potential.”, he said.

As an example to support his statement, he pointed out the recent conflict between India and Pakistani over water supplies. Both of the countries have huge militaries and nuclear power that could cause massive damage to each other, and the world.

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