Sentences with phrase «spark mass migrations»

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

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This new IISS report finds that climate change is unlikely to spark interstate wars between major military powers in the next three or four decades, but it simultaneously cautions that climate change will boost the chances of scrambles for limited resources, mass migrations and civil conflict.