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Ed Markey: “The only problem is, as we know, is that the absence of the natural resources that are related to climate change then…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2014
The only problem is, as we know, is that the absence of the natural resources that are related to climate change then further exacerbates the ethnic conflicts.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey highlights how climate change intensifies ethnic conflicts over dwindling resources.

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