The creator of the drawing is a French artist ‎ #JeanJullien‬

The compassion towards the victims is a feeling which we all share. Our deepest emotions go to the families and friends of those who were killed, we want to express our desire to help. We talk about the need of strength  and the perseverance to overcome the difficult times. All this spreads and slowly we start realising that even if it is the easiest for us to imagine the situation of citizens of the Western and well admired city, like Paris, the war has been started elsewhere. The tragedies of people happen each day, and without eliminating the reasons the consequences may spread even further.

Apart of the political situation which will for sure get its in-depth analyses lots of tensions result from the worsening environmental conditions of regions where current conflicts take place. This environmental danger which rapidly raises as a a follow up of the unpredictable changes in climate conditions makes people fight for shrinking resources. 2015 is to become the first year to crack the halfway mark of 2°C warming, the benchmark that’s been targeted as “safe” climate change.
“A new World Bank report shows that climate change is an acute threat to poorer people across the world, with the power to push more than 100 million people back into poverty over the next fifteen years.  And the poorest regions of the world – Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia – will be hit the hardest.”

Isn’t this part of the problem? We may only consider such questions rhetorical.

I do hope that the Paris climate talks will succeed in global agreement, also now when the dangers of the consequences of the ongoing changes have suddenly become explicit in so said and regrettable way. The Western world is not really able to remain safe, while horrible things happen elsewhere.

PS. The title is a paraphrase of the one in The NY Times. Don’t you think we should look for solutions and eliminate reasons, not only fight the consequences in the less or more concerted way?