hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
State of the Future
"RISING food and energy prices, water scarcity, climate change and increasing migration could fuel growing instability and violence around the world over the next decade, a global research report has concluded.It highlighted 15 global challenges, ranging from water and energy to organised crime and global ethics, that require priority attention.
Today 700 million people face water scarcity (defined as less than 1000 cubic metres per person per year) and the figure could grow to 3 billion by 2025 because of climate change, population growth and increasing demand for water per capita."
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So, food and water is becoming harder to get for billions of people because of climate change and, at the root of it, global population growth. This causes the mass movement of people as they leave areas affected most by scarcity and the conflict that naturally comes with scarcity. This mass migration causes unrest because, surprise surprise, ethnicities like to stick together and ward off 'outsiders' coming along to consume their limited stocks of food and water.
A question begs itself: why is overpopulation not listed as one of the fundamental 'global challenges' above? Because the notion of 'overpopulation' is, unfortunately, taboo in any real shape, context or form.
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