When climate pressures deepen, the fight against violence becomes harder because people have less energy and more stress.
Imagine you're playing a game with your friends. You all start off happy and ready to win. But then it starts raining really hard, and the ground gets muddy. It's harder to run, easier to trip, and everyone is getting tired faster. That’s like climate pressures, things like hot weather, droughts, or storms that make life more difficult.
Climate pressure is like a long game of tag
When it's too hot or there isn't enough food, people get frustrated. It's like when you're playing tag and the ground is slippery, you can’t run as fast, and everyone gets tired quicker. That makes it easier for arguments to start, and harder to stop them.
Violence is like a big argument that won’t go away. When life is already hard because of climate changes, people are more likely to argue or even fight, just like when you're tired from playing too long and someone pushes you, you might shout or even trip them on purpose!
So, climate pressures make the game harder, and that makes it harder to stay peaceful.
Examples
- Hotter summers make people more irritable and prone to arguments.
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See also
- Can geoengineering save the planet from climate change?
- Are australias carbon farming schemes just hot air hardly forests are regrowing?
- Climate change: what is ocean acidification?
- Does Climate Change Cause Extreme Weather?
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