{"id":12534,"date":"2013-09-08T20:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2013-09-08T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T02:46:40","slug":"billmoyers-com-drought-helped-spark-syrias-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=12534","title":{"rendered":"BillMoyers.com | Drought Helped Spark Syria&#8217;s Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12541\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AP06122902498_size.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12541\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12541\" title=\"MIDEAST SYRIA RAIN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AP06122902498_size-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AP06122902498_size-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AP06122902498_size-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AP06122902498_size.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of Syrian Muslims pray for rain at the Grand Umayyad Mosque in central Damascus in 2006. (AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Climate change is already hurting the world\u2019s most vulnerable populations. Those who live in areas hit hard by drought, severe storms or rising seas and can\u2019t relocate because of economic or social factors bear the brunt of our planet\u2019s increasing volatility. One way the changing climate has already made itself known is through a devastating drought \u2014 and ensuing food shortage \u2014 in Syria; it created a powder keg, and played a significant role in sparking the country\u2019s civil war. We can expect to see similar scenarios unfold in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at BillMoyers.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/2013\/09\/06\/drought-helped-spark-syrias-civil-war-is-it-the-first-of-many-climate-wars-to-come\/\">Drought Helped Spark Syria&#8217;s Civil War &#8212; Is it One of Many Climate Wars to Come?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is already hurting the world\u2019s most vulnerable populations. Those who live in areas hit hard by drought, severe storms or rising seas and can\u2019t relocate because of economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[213,560,508,833,832,212],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-climate-change","tag-drought","tag-food","tag-syria","tag-war","tag-water-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12547,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions\/12547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}