Global warming is helping create a fertile recruiting ground for terrorists and other Islamic radicals in Europe, a national security advisor for former President George W. Bush said Thursday.
“Climate change and a lot of other economic dislocations have put a lot of people out of work,” Stephen Hadley, who served as Bush’s national security adviser from 2001 to 2009, said during a speaking event conducted by Politico.
“They are on the move and they have no place to go, and it means they are recruiting grounds for terrorists and extremists and potential refugee flows that will tax Europe even more,” he said.
Hadley’s comments come as Obama administration officials make the same kind of assertions.
Secretary of State John Kerry called climate change the “most serious challenge we face on the planet” in 2014 as calls for President Barack Obama to do more to fight climate changed intensified.
“Let me just say that one of the greatest challenges of our times besides the fight against extremism is to deal with the enormous battle of climate change,” Kerry said in June during a press conference in Denmark.
Kerry doubled down on the assertion in a 2014 speech in Jakarta, claiming climate change is the “world’s largest weapon of mass destruction.”
Media sophisticates and climate activists alike share Kerry and Hadley’s contentions.
Climate scientist and liberal blogger Jim Romm, for instance, wrote an article in June arguing that global warming drove the so-called Brexit.
The Brexit movement, Romm added, was largely fueled by “scaremongering around the Syrian refugee crisis,” which he contends is caused by global warming.
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