Prince Charles links Syrian war to climate change, says the world is heading toward 'catastrophe'

The heir to the British throne has a little bit different take on the Syria crisis than the rest of the world. Prince Charles believes that climate change could be one of the causes that has resulted in the conflict in Syria.

In an interview with Sky News, the active environment campaigner said that climate change and the associated drought in the Middle East is one of the reasons behind the death of hundreds of thousands civilians, the rising of the Islamic State and the refugee crisis. Charles says that the lack of resources and environmental changes have filled Syria with instability in the recent years.

The interview was filmed just before the deadly Islamist terrorist attack on Paris that left 130 people dead. In the interview, Charles clearly tries to establish a link between terrorism and climate change.

Charles further said that the Syrian was is a classic example of not dealing with the problem. People will have to move and migrate if the problems such as scarcity of resources, drought and the effects of climate change are not dealt with.

"And, in fact, there's very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough, was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land," said Charles, in the interview, according to The Guardian.

Charles is scheduled to deliver the keynote speech during the opening ceremony of the United Nations conference, COP21, on climate change on Nov. 30. The objective of the summit is to reach a new international treaty to help limit greenhouse gas emissions and restrict the global warming to no more than two degrees.

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