- The peace needs to be rewritten to include provisions for all tribes to address what they were fighting over to begin with.
- Famine relief needs to be supported by all western world countries, especially those who are the largest contributors to global warming.
- The conflict in Sudan's arid west can be traced to severe drought and population growth in the 1980s that sparked a struggle between settled farmers and pastoralists.
- In Darfur there is a massive ecological and demographic challenge exacerbated by climate change.
- There's not a chance in the world for Darfur to be peaceful unless a solution is found to water stress.
Read more in these two posts from Sudan Watch archive 2006:
Climate Change and Darfur
Note this gem, by an insightful blogger at dishyduds blogspot re "Climate Change and Darfur":
"I now believe that the United States has a moral obligation to alleviate the struggles in Africa. It is our responsibility because we are the largest contributors to the root of the problem. I no longer support a UN military presence. Peace cannot be forced, and military action would only act as a band-aid on a seeping infected wound. The root cause needs to be addressed and the United States needs to lead as we had a hand in creating the problem. The peace needs to be rewritten to include provisions for all tribes to address what they were fighting over to begin with. Famine relief needs to be supported by all western world countries, especially those who are the largest contributors to global warming."
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Related report
Sudan Watch - July 17, 2006
Darfur Peace Must Address Water Crisis: Economist - excerpt:
The conflict in Sudan's arid west is often attributed to political and ethnic grievances, Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, told a climate change conference.
But he said its origins can be traced to severe drought and population growth in the 1980s that sparked a struggle between settled farmers and pastoralists.
"(In Darfur) we need to understand that, at the core, there is a massive ecological and demographic challenge exacerbated by climate change," Sachs said.
"I would say there's not a chance in the world for Darfur to be peaceful unless a solution is found to water stress."
Full story: https://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2006/07/darfur-peace-must-address-water-crisis.html
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