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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, it sounds awful to say, 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“.

简讯：查尔斯王子将叙利亚危机与气候变化联系到了一起

查尔斯王子认为现在的叙利亚危机得为气候变化负责。

不列颠皇权的继任者建议“必须”将环境问题与全球冲突、恐怖袭击等时间结合起来，并将现在的状况比作2008年全球金融危机。

查尔斯王子对一名SKYNEWS的采访说道：“我们正面临着自然银行走向破产这个真实存在的可能性”

他还认为：“我们正目睹着自己对这个问题毫无作为，我的意思是，尽管说出来很难听，但是我们之中有些人20年前有预言，如果不把环境问题搞定的话，你真会目睹愈演愈烈的因资源枯竭造成的争端以及前所未有的干旱，还有因气候变化积累的影响使人们不得不居家搬迁。

还有，事实上，已经有证据证明叙利亚最让人恐慌的原因是来自已经持续了5到6年的干旱，这意味着有大量的人最终会离开这片土地，这也挺搞笑的。”

对查尔斯王子的采访是在巴黎遭到恐怖袭击之前录制的，本来用于下周一在巴黎举行的联合国气候变化峰会上发表的。

叙利亚冲突最终导致了400万人逃离这个国家，从而引起了欧洲避难危机，对各国政府造成了广泛的政治问题。

该地区的紧张局势由于土耳其在晚间击落俄罗斯战斗机事件而在此升温。作为正在指挥轰炸行动以支持叙利亚总统阿萨德的俄罗斯总统普京谴责土耳其，称其“正在成为恐怖分子的盟友”。