Violence has cast a long shadow over a climate summit which opens in Paris on Monday, two weeks after 130 people were killed in a coordinated jihadi onslaught on the French capital.

As more than 150 world leaders prepare to meet under heightened security, analysts warned of an increasingly war-torn future facing humanity if they fail to limit global warming.

The Paris attacks on Nov. 13 were claimed by the Islamic State group that has a brutal war in Syria — a conflict rooted in part, experts say, on a historic drought from 2006 to 2010.

It drove some 1.5 million farmers and herders off their land and into cities and towns like Homs, Palmyra and Damascus.

Many a report has suggested that water scarcity, exacerbated by global warming, has fueled deadly conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, thus contributing to the flood of refugees seeking a better life in Europe and elsewhere.

Experts warn the situation is likely to worsen as climate conditions become more hostile to human survival — and people become more desperate.

bbabo.Net