The Compass

Climate Wars: Central and Northern America


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Will Robson investigates the impact climate change is having on human security in Central and Northern America.

He examines how global warming is leading to mass migration across the region, and how a spike in freak weather events is undermining basic social infrastructures.
He also hears why the avocado has become a “conflict commodity” in Mexico, and how climate change threatens the resilience of the USA’s power grid and its nuclear weapons arsenal.

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