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Prince Charles thinks that climate change is responsible for the current crisis in Syria.
The heir to the British throne suggested that there is “absolutely” a link between environmental issues and global conflict and terrorism, and likened the current state of the planet to the 2008 GFC.
“We’re now facing a real possibility of nature’s bank going bust,” he said in an interview with Sky News.
He added:
“We’re seeing a classic case of not dealing with the problem, because, I mean,, but some of us were saying 20 years ago that if we didn’t tackle these issues, you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of， climate change, which means that people have to move.
“And, in fact, there’s very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.”
His interview, which was filmed before the attacks in Paris, comes ahead of the UN’s COP21 climate summit in Paris next Monday.
The conflict in Syria has resulted in over 4 million people leaving the country, leading to a refugee crisis in Europe that is having widespread political consequences for governments.
Tension in the region has ratcheted up yet again with the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by the Turkish military overnight. Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has been conducting a bombing campaign in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, has accused Turkey of being the “accomplices of terrorists“.
查尔斯王子认为气候的改变对目前叙利亚危机有一定的影响。
英国王室继承人曾暗示环境问题与全球冲突、恐怖主义“必然”存在联系，并且他将目前全球状况与2008年经济危机相比拟。
他在接受《天空新闻》采访时说：“我们正在面临自然银行将要破产的现实，”他又说：“我们将会看到一个不处理这个问题的经典案例，我的意思是，这听起来很可怕，但我们中的一些人在20年前就说过，如果我们不解决这些问题，你们将会看到比资源缺乏所带来的更大的冲突，比干旱更大的困难。环境改变所带来的影响的积累意味着人类不得不搬离地球。事实上，滑稽的是，有很好的证据证明造成叙利亚这种惨状的主要原因之一是持续了五六年的干旱，这意味着很大一群人最后不得不搬离这片土地。”
他的采访在巴黎空袭之前就已拍摄，并且在下周一巴黎联合国气候变化大会（COP 21）即将举办之前放出。
叙利亚的冲突造成四百多万人离开了国家导致了欧洲难民危机，现在已经扩大到政府的政治影响。土耳其军队一夜之间击落了一架俄罗斯战机再次加剧了地区紧张。俄罗斯总统普京指挥了一场轰炸战役以支持叙利亚总统巴沙尔，并且指控土耳其是“恐怖主义的共犯”。