{"id":9598,"date":"2021-09-13T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T15:21:16","slug":"taliban-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resoilfoundation.org\/en\/environment\/taliban-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS: “How climate change has become a Taliban ally”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past three decades, floods and droughts have devastated the agricultural soil in Afghanistan, the U.S. broadcaster says. In this way, they also provided the Taliban with a chance to recruit a growing number of desperate farmers with no alternatives<\/h2>\n

by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n

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From climate crisis to political disaster: or rather, the untold story of Taliban<\/strong>‘s comeback. No, this is not the tale of a conspiracy neither some kind of hidden dirty secret. It’s just the reality of global warming<\/strong> and land devastation in a agricultural-based nation. It’s the story, according to CBS<\/a>, of how Kabul’s new leaders have managed to take advantage of this for years. “Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change,” US broadcaster says. “The past three decades have brought floods and drought that have destroyed crops and left people hungry<\/strong>. And the Taliban \u2014 likely without knowing climate change was the cause \u2014 has taken advantage of that pain.”<\/p>\n