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A determined EU effort to counter Arab fragmentation and tackle problems ranging from acute water
scarcity
to poor education would pay rich dividends.
Will similar tensions arise between resource-challenged China (where even water
scarcity
is a problem) and the West?
But the link between food
scarcity
and migration is stronger than it might seem to those who are not among the hungry.
To be sure, some steps are being taken to address food waste and
scarcity.
Could the very functioning of the capitalist system bring an end to the problem of
scarcity
– and hence to capitalism itself?
So, would the problem of
scarcity
– which underlies all economics – be resolved by such an increase?
At the very least,
scarcity
need not be a question of life and death.
Nevertheless,
scarcity
would remain, because there is no such a thing as a stationary state in which all needs are satisfied and mankind ceases to hope for a better future.
But soaring oil prices, together with indications of natural limits, such as climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, demonstrate the need for a new approach.
Scarcity
of capital and abundance of labor resulted in increasing human exploitation, which in turn resulted in efforts to overcome what was considered, or was considered at least by people like Marx, to eliminate the causes of this kind of exploitation.
And they will be crucial to forging new cooperative approaches to climate change, water scarcity, and the like.
This “pink gold” forms the heart of the Antarctic marine food web, and land-based krill predators, such as penguins and seals, are most vulnerable to krill
scarcity.
In their pioneering 2013 book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, Harvard’s Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir of Princeton University examined the conditions under which people make decisions regarding how they manage their jobs, families, and lives.
Many took the opportunity, leading Mullainathan and Shafir to conclude that poor decisions can result from conditions of
scarcity
and stress.
By reducing benefits received by the poor, the government is ensuring that
scarcity
surges and poor decisions multiply.
This redistribution, channeling net public resources toward lower-income households, is a sensible correction to the market economy, a kind of insurance against life’s vicissitudes and the rigors of
scarcity
pricing that characterize the market economy and have little to do with equitableness.
As a result, several UN agencies forecast that, by 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in regions stricken with absolute water scarcity, implying a lack of access to adequate quantities for human and environmental uses.
Moreover, two-thirds of the world’s population will face water-stress conditions, meaning a
scarcity
of renewable freshwater.
Poverty, malnutrition, and hunger are a result of politics, not
scarcity.
As the
scarcity
of human capital declines in importance, the rapid expansion of education may not be the answer to the challenges of globalization that we hoped it would be.
Because wages are determined by the law of scarcity, some people cannot earn enough money to live a decent life.
The deviation is usually attributed to a cultural preference for boys, which will take an additional toll on both populations, as the future
scarcity
of women implies that both countries’ effective reproductive capacity is below what is suggested by the unadjusted TFR.
Responding to water
scarcity
by re-using and treating wastewater, or through deep-well pumping and desalination, will increase fossil-fuel use.
Third, we are entering an era of resource
scarcity.
When the demand for potatoes at the current price exceeds supply, the price of potatoes rises, signaling
scarcity.
During the housing bubble, prices signaled a severe
scarcity
of houses.
In a world of scarcity, more always seemed better.
What few seem to recognize is how water
scarcity
contributes to this cycle of violence.
Environmental, demographic, and economic pressures aggravate water scarcity, and the resulting unemployment and insecurity fuels social unrest, political turmoil, and extremism.
Governments respond with increased subsidies on water and other resources, deepening the environmental challenges that exacerbate
scarcity
and lead to unrest.
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