MUMBAI, April 5 -- Last week, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the United Nation's weather agency, released its annual report, State of the Global Climate in 2018. It is alarming. The earth, the report said, is nearly 1 degree Celsius warmer than it was when the industrial age started, and extreme weather events hit 62 million people worldwide and forced two million to relocate as the climate crisis worsened in 2018. The media reportage on the WMO study has been quite extensive. Yet, there is one aspect that needs more intensive coverage. That is the "clear link", as the study puts it, now emerging between climate change and social instability. AMAL KS/HTPHOTO In August 2018, severe floods affected Kerala due to high rainfall during the monsoon season. It was the worst flood in the state in nearly a century...