Martin O’Malley: ISIS Exists Because of Climate Change
by Alex Griswold | 4:49 pm, July 21st, 2015VIDEO482
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley said on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect that ISIS came about because of the effects of climate change.
“One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria and the rise of ISIS, was the effects of climate change and the mega-drought that effected that region,” he said, noting how it “wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, [and] created a humanitarian crisis.”
“It created the symptoms, or rather the conditions of extreme poverty that has led now to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,” O’Malley concluded.
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