Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at U.S. Aid’s 2014 Frontiers in Development Forum Friday and gave a stark warning about “500-year” drought conditions around the world that he says are a result of climate change. He went so far as to say that “[t]here are people killing each other over water in certain parts of the world,” and part of the solution lies in a “low-carbon economy” [emphasis added]:

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