Piracy fear over global warming, says minister Bill Rammell

The Times
March 18, 2009
Richard Lloyd Parry

Tokyo Global warming will increase the risk of war, conflict and terrorism and represents perhaps the greatest challenge to global stability, a British minister warned yesterday.
Speaking at a conference here, Bill Rammell, a Foreign Office minister, predicted a tenfold increase in piracy as populations suffering the effects of climate change seized scarce resources from the high seas, and the radicalisation of impoverished people, leading to terror attacks. “It’s not difficult to imagine how the ‘have-nots’ could be radicalised,” he said.