Fact meets fiction: will climate change lead to more terrorism?
In Val Kilmer's latest flick, , a frustrated university professor turned terrorist locks six people in a Turkish bath. He threatens to slowly 'cook' (in chef's lingo, estouffade) his victims unless the newspapers publish his research on climate change.
So is there a link between terrorism and climate change? As if on cue, British Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell has suggested it might be on the cards, although for slightly different reasons.
Speaking at a climate security conference in Japan, he said: 'It's not difficult to imagine how the "have-nots" could be radicalised by someone saying: "those rich western countries created global warming, and now they are buying up the world's food stocks, leaving us to starve". We know all too well that it doesn't take many radicals to disrupt our way of life - and that borders, or even oceans, are no barrier to those bent on killing innocent people and damaging our way of life.'
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