In
July, presidential candidate Martin O’Malley made headlines by suggesting that
the rise of the so-called Islamic State came about in part 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 effect of climate change and
the mega-drought that affected that region,? wiped out farmers, drove people to
cities, 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.” Republican Party Chair Reince Priebus called the remarks
"absurd." We get O’Malley’s response.
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