Behind the excuses for war

...the real motivations often boil down to the availability of a limiting resource. Of course, if you happen to make a lot of money off of war, you might want to create insoluble problems that cause people to fight like caged rats...



Most of the human race will soon face what sub Saharan Africa faces:

Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Tibet's glaciers may disappear within 100 years due to global warming, threatening China's overused and polluted water supplies, the United Nations said.

``Almost all glaciers in China have already shown substantial melting,'' the UN Development Programme said in its 2006 Human Development Report. ``The 300 million farmers in China's arid western region are likely to see a decline in the volume of water flowing from the glaciers.''

Economic development in the world's fastest-growing major economy has increased competition for water resources, which are only a quarter of the world's average per person. Climate change is one of several threats to China's water supplies, including industrial pollution, overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and weak enforcement of environmental law.

Shortages of water from overuse affect 538 million people in northern China, where 42 percent of China's population is supplied by 14 percent of the country's water, according to the UN report.

More than 70 percent of the water in the Yellow, Huai and Hai rivers, which supply about half of China's population, is too polluted for human use, the report said. Half of China's rural poor live in the basin areas of these rivers, it said...
[thanks to Buzzflash]

Melting the glaciers on the roof of the world causes a feed forward effect, releasing more greehnouse gases.

But don't worry. The Texas oil boys say it's another generation before the oil starts to run out. Those nattering nabobs of negativism should just drink crude. All 3 and a half billion of them.