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Letter: Syrian explosion

Published 25 March 2015

From Eric Kvaalen

The idea that global greenhouse emissions contributed to the Syrian civil war may be true,

but this is quite a minor factor (7 March, p 6). A more important factor is the quadrupling of the Syrian population since 1960. With a population explosion like this, the country was bound to reach a point where agriculture was insufficient and unemployment would rise, even without global warming.
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Issue no. 3014 published 28 March 2015

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