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Over the longer term, it means awareness of structural risks like high sovereign debt, demographic shifts, and natural-resource
scarcity.
Especially during times of upheaval and increased food scarcity, soaking the peeled tubers for three days until fermentation, and then sun-drying them for a day, might seem like an unaffordable luxury.
Likewise, food
scarcity
is a growing problem for Asian countries, with crop yields and overall food production growing more slowly than demand.
Seed
scarcity
is directly caused by seed monopolies, which have as their ultimate weapon a “terminator” seed that is engineered for sterility.
Given this, the legacy of the Cold War should give way to issues like ensuring that China’s rise remains peaceful, preventing the current chaos in the Arab world from spreading beyond the region, limiting the scope of nuclear-weapons proliferation, and contributing to global efforts to address climate change, water scarcity, food security, and cyber-crime.
Water WarsNEW YORK – Many conflicts are caused or inflamed by water
scarcity.
The conflicts from Chad to Darfur, Sudan, to the Ogaden Desert in Ethiopia, to Somalia and its pirates, and across to Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, lie in a great arc of arid lands where water
scarcity
is leading to failed crops, dying livestock, extreme poverty, and desperation.
As a result, the United States and Europe often spend tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars to send troops or bombers to quell uprisings or target “failed states,” but do not send one-tenth or even one-hundredth of that amount to address the underlying crises of water
scarcity
and under-development.
Rapidly intensifying water
scarcity
reflects bulging populations, depletion of groundwater, waste and pollution, and the enormous and increasingly dire effects of manmade climate change.
The US, for example, encouraged a population boom in its arid southwestern states in recent decades, despite water
scarcity
that climate change is likely to intensify.
A crucial next step is to bring together scientific, political, and business leaders from societies that share the problems of water
scarcity
– for example, Sudan, Pakistan, the US, Australia, Spain, and Mexico – to brainstorm about creative approaches to overcoming them.
As the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen compellingly argues, hunger is not caused by a
scarcity
of food, but by a
scarcity
of democracy.
Rather than paying lip service to climate change and resource scarcity, we start to respect and uphold the limits of our planet and its atmosphere.
Oil supply is likely to be vulnerable to political disruptions long before issues arise from overall
scarcity
of supply.
To help kick-start progress, major multinational companies like Nestlé, Coca-Cola, SABMiller, and Unilever – which have long emphasized to their investors the challenge that water
scarcity
poses for their businesses, not to mention the communities in which they operate – are working to improve water availability, quality, and sustainability.
Indeed, both countries have entered an era of perennial water scarcity, which before long is likely to equal, in terms of per capita availability, the water shortages found in the Middle East.
Rapid economic growth could slow in the face of acute
scarcity
if demand for water continues to grow at its current frantic pace, turning China and India – both food-exporting countries – into major importers, a development that would accentuate the global food crisis.
For example, price controls, rather than lowering prices, often cause
scarcity
and the emergence of a black market in which controlled commodities cost significantly more.
It used to be thought that
scarcity
created value, that the more produced of a given item, the less its value.
As early as 2015, the average Arab will be forced to survive on less than 500 cubic meters of water per year, a level defined as severe
scarcity.
As a result, new infrastructure would only mitigate the impact of
scarcity
on richer countries.
The
scarcity
of primary commodities and damage from climate change in recent years contributed to the destabilization of the world economy that gave rise to the current crisis.
Water
scarcity
is hitting virtually every major economic center, from North America to Europe, Africa, India, and China.
Some believe that this is a natural development for a rising power, but critics view outward investment as a reflection of the
scarcity
of opportunities at home.
Scarcity
was self-limiting: If you could not grow or catch your own food, you died (or moved).
While many other countries also have considerable shale-gas potential, problems abound, including water
scarcity
in China, investment security in Argentina, and environmental restrictions in several European countries.
By 2100, one billion to three billion people worldwide are expected to suffer from water
scarcity.
This sudden
scarcity
of an element whose symbolic and spiritual importance matches its centrality to human life will cause stress and exacerbate conflicts worldwide.
Yet in a new context of scarcity, upstream infrastructure projects on international rivers may impact water quality or availability for neighboring states, thus causing tensions.
But addressing
scarcity
will inevitably imply revising agricultural practices and policies worldwide to ensure their sustainability.
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