Klimawandel und Konflikte im Nahen Osten

In *The Caravan Notebook,* Fabrice Balanche writes about the body of scholarship that links climate change to societal collapse and war. Looking at the example of Syria prior to the 2011 outbreak of civil war, he finds a host of data that suggests drought conditions there between 2005 and 2010 did increase pressure on ordinary people. “The prolonged drought did not directly trigger the civil war, but it certainly exacerbated it,” he writes. Today, water supply issues remain in parts of Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, as well as the Gaza Strip. Climate change will only make these shortages worse. Without adequate solutions, Balanche writes, cities in these states will become “ticking time bombs,” with another crisis right around the corner.