Images from the frontline of Somalia’s battle with climate change
Somalia has never been a forgiving place. A land of extreme temperatures and little rain, the country has faced cyclical droughts and periodic famines throughout the past century. But decades of civil war, coupled with the effects of climate change, have set the country on a path to environmental disaster. Home to a bloody Islamist insurgency that is arguably the world’s first climate war, Somalia is grappling with rapid desertification, increasingly erratic rainfall, and the destruction of coastal waters by foreign fishing fleets. “With this weather pattern, Somalia or Somalis will not survive,” says Fatima Jibrell, a Somali-American environmental activist. “Maybe the land, a piece of desert called Somalia, will exist on the map of the world, but Somalis cannot survive.”
▻http://features.foreignpolicy.com/06-06-2017-somalias-land-is-dying-the-people-will-be-next-cl
#climat #changement_climatique #Somalie #guerre #conflit #guerre_climatique #désertification #famine #sécheresse #famine #photographie
cc @albertocampiphoto