^ haha! The beauty is in the pictures - the terror is in the captions and statistics.
This article should carry a tl;dr warning, but if you are curious about climate change, it might be interesting; ironically, given the concern about rising sea-levels, drinking water is set to become "the new oil".
Read this and you will also be able to impress people by talking about "virtual water" and how it's being traded all the time, but is never mentioned by governments or economists.
BBC - Future - Why
Also how the environment is affecting world politics today:-
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In Syria, meanwhile, the worst drought in close to a millennium has been partly blamed for the country’s generation-defining civil war and radicalisation that led to the formation of so-called Islamic State. That history-making drought drove more people to cities, saw rising food prices, and exacerbated tensions in the country that already existed. They ended up with “climate refugees”, who travel to other countries to seek places that have better water availability, which may in turn stoke the flames of political tension.
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