00:00I think that's really important because one of the key circumstances that brought about the Arab Spring in the first
00:06place was economic deterioration exacerbated by climate change and very bad agricultural yields.
00:15And if you look at Syria, there were years of severe droughts and long term drying trends before 2011, which
00:24meant that over a million Syrians who are working in the fields and working in agriculture were forced back into
00:29the cities where jobs were already scarce and there was increasing competition for livelihoods.
00:36And that was a major factor in the social tension that lit the spark of those first protests.
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