"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 ... Wherever you look, the picture is roughly the same: supplies of critical
resources may be rising or falling, but rarely do they appear to be
outpacing demand, producing a sense of widespread and systemic scarcity.
However generated, a perception of scarcity -- or imminent scarcity --
regularly leads to anxiety, resentment, hostility, and contentiousness ... Anxiety over future supplies is often also a factor in conflicts that
break out over access to oil or control of contested undersea reserves
of oil and natural gas ... [T]he unbridled consumption of the world’s natural resources, combined
with the advent of extreme climate change, could produce a global
explosion of human chaos and conflict. We are now heading directly into
a resource-shock world."
Zum Artikel von Prof. Michael T. Klare, erschienen auf TomDispatch (21. April 2013) »
Zum Artikel von Prof. Michael T. Klare, erschienen auf TomDispatch (21. April 2013) »
