Paris: Violence has cast a long shadow over a climate summit opening in Paris on Monday, two weeks after 130 people were killed in a coordinated jihadist onslaught on the French capital. As more than 150 world leaders prepared 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 November 13 were claimed by the Islamic State group that has a brutal war in Syria a conflict rooted in part, experts say, in 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. “It’s not a coincidence...
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