Get Ready for the Worst Resource Shock the World Has Ever Known -- Michael Klare, Real Clear World/Tom Dispatch
Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the U.S. intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you're on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced.
Two nightmare scenarios -- a global scarcity of vital resources and the onset of extreme climate change -- are already beginning to converge and in the coming decades are likely to produce a tidal wave of unrest, rebellion, competition, and conflict. Just what this tsunami of disaster will look like may, as yet, be hard to discern, but experts warn of "water wars" over contested river systems, global food riots sparked by soaring prices for life's basics, mass migrations of climate refugees (with resulting anti-migrant violence), and the breakdown of social order or the collapse of states. At first, such mayhem is likely to arise largely in Africa, Central Asia, and other areas of the underdeveloped South, but in time all regions of the planet will be affected.
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My Comment: The battle for resources is as old as warfare itself. In this post .... Michael Klare does a good analysis on what to expect.
1 comment:
A very good read. Seems to be a natural order of things to come. It happened to the Romans, it happened to the Byzantines, and what we are seeing is the modern take on what happens when Civilization as a whole collapses, which will make the dark age look pitiful in comparison.
History repeating itself.
Such a shame because such things can be prevented. Humanity has always grown too comfortable with itself. We've experienced technological marvels and innovations, but little in the way to remove our dependence on heavily burdened resources.
In reality, I would dare say 90% of our technological breakthroughs and inventions have been designed for selfish reasons; be it war, luxury items (phone tech, 3d television, ocula rift, etc) with little in the way in terms of space innovation and few but far between strides in medicine.
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