
Peter Schwartzstein
@PSchwartzstein
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Environmental journalist & researcher. Non-res fellow @StimsonCenter & @CntrClimSec, @TEDfellow. Author: THE HEAT AND THE FURY (Sept 2024).
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Joined January 2012
Join us for what we promise will be a fascinating, timely, and not necessarily-as-bleak-as-it-sounds discussion!
How does climate change drive violence in the world’s most vulnerable regions? Join us for a book talk with journalist @PSchwartzstein on The Heat and the Fury, exploring how climate change fuels global conflicts. 📅13 Oct |📍Strand 🔗Register now: https://t.co/HGTjcWWqeU
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OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK Discover how climate change is feeding global violence - from urban crime to warfare - in The Heat and the Fury by @PSchwartzstein. https://t.co/9SwwR9r0Ft
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In The Heat and the Fury, @PSchwartzstein draws on years of on-the-ground reporting to tell the story of the links between climate change and global conflict. Out next week in paperback: https://t.co/9SwwR9r0Ft
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"In this messy new world, even state responses to climate change can fall afoul of border trouble." An eloquent reminder on the stern threats but also opportunties coming from climate impacts and conflict by @PSchwartzstein
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The impact of climate change on the geographic features that demarcate many frontiers is adding to longstanding beefs over borders.
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How does climate change drive violence in the world’s most vulnerable regions? Join us for a book talk with journalist @PSchwartzstein on The Heat and the Fury, exploring how climate change fuels global conflicts. 📅13 Oct |📍Strand 🔗Register now: https://t.co/NHAPjDWRqt
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Join us for an engaging discussion of the book The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence.
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Fast spreading wildfire along the eastern flank of Parnitha, chewing through vegetation and, by the looks of things, some warehouses, just to north of Athens. There’s an even bigger fire on Evia. Smoke plumes are merging
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Thanks to Trump’s Weather Service cuts, their 2 flood zone offices now lack a chief meteorologist, warning coordination meteorologist, senior hydrologist & staff forecaster. And the top elected official in Kerr County, where the camp is, on their lack of a local warning system.
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Join us at @london_climate for our webinar "Climate conflict – Global heating as a driver of worldwide violence" With 🔹@PSchwartzstein, environmental journalist 🔹@NisreenElsaim, climate activist focused on policy, peace and security + youth empowerment https://t.co/2n5k28pkwg
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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the
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Floods are hard to cover when the road is washed out, by @PSchwartzstein.
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Floods are hard to cover when the road is washed out.
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Global warming doesn’t respect borders or bank accounts. As the effects of the climate crisis come faster, changing conditions threaten to apply the kind of pressure that even the richest of countries will struggle to withstand, notes @PSchwartzstein.
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As the world warms, the West learns it’s not exempt
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In episode two, David examines how water can be both a weapon and victim of conflict with @STIAGeorgetown's Marcus King, @georgetownsfs's @MarwaDaoudy, and @PSchwartzstein of the @CntrClimSec .
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Evidence of climate contribution's to violence is overwhelming. So too is evidence of climate's hobbling of military infrastructure, military equipment, and military personnel. This is self-sabotage writ very large and very destructively
John is, of course, correct. The @DeptofDefense does not do climate change crap. We do training and warfighting.
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Last chance to join us tomorrow for this event in in collaboration with @rsi_rice! Journalist & researcher @PSchwartzstein will present key findings from his new book, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of #Climate Violence.” RSVP here: https://t.co/BZXnIHaRVq
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Climate change doesn't just melt ice caps, it also fuels conflict, corruption and division worldwide, explains TED Fellow and journalist Peter Schwartzstein (@PSchwartzstein). From droughts in Syria to rising seas in Bangladesh, he explores how climate stress escalates existing
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🎙️In this 14th episode of the podcast "Sur le front climatique" @PSchwartzstein, Environmental journalist & researcher, answers the questions of Mathilde Jourde @InstitutIRISabout the violence generated by the climate change. https://t.co/ffmuiFI4Hi
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Do we give enough consideration to climate and environmental factors in our analyses of conflicts? How did the Islamic State leverage the decline in agricultural yields to recruit new fighters? In...
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Alongside a very kind review of my book by the legendary Robin Hanbury-Tenison, @GeographicalMag, the Royal Geographical Society's magazine, asked me to suggest a bunch of reads of my own. Here!
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Peter Shwartzstein recommends his favourite books in our latest Writer's Reads. His latest book, The Heat and the Fury, is out now
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Climate change isn't just an environmental threat—it's a catalyst for conflict. 🎧 On this week's episode of #ColumbiaEnergyExchange, host @bill_loveless talks with journalist @PSchwartzstein about his new book 'The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence.' ⬇️
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We are 76% towards our $25K goal! With just hours left before the New Year, make your contribution now to empower Iraq's environmental movement.
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EPIC (Enabling Peace in Iraq Center) has been challenged by a… Erik Gustafson needs your support for Double Your Impact: Empower Iraq's Environmental Movement
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(Naturally, distilling a complicated subject down to such a brief segment required leaving lots of the ifs, buts, and other caveats on the cutting room floor. If keen to learn much, much more, I've got a book for you....)
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