ASSOCIATED PRESS - As the world warms, water - either too little or too
much of it - is going to be the major problem for the United States,
scientists and military experts said Monday. It will be a domestic
problem, with states clashing over controls of rivers, and a national
security problem as water shortages and floods worsen conflicts and
terrorism elsewhere in the world, they said. . .
"One of the biggest likely areas of conflict is going to be over water,"
said [General Charles] Wald, former deputy commander of U.S. European
Command. He pointed to the Middle East and Africa. . .
Lack of water and food in places already the most volatile will make
those regions even more unstable with global warming and "foster the
conditions for internal conflicts, extremism and movement toward
increased authoritarianism and radical ideologies," states the 63-page
military report, issued by the CNA Corp., an Alexandria, Va.-based
national security think tank. . .
As water fights erupt between nations and regions and especially between
cities and agricultural areas, Stanford scientist Terry Root said there
will be one sure loser low on the priority list for water: other
species. "The fish will lose out and the birds and everything," she
said.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,132519,00.html
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much of it - is going to be the major problem for the United States,
scientists and military experts said Monday. It will be a domestic
problem, with states clashing over controls of rivers, and a national
security problem as water shortages and floods worsen conflicts and
terrorism elsewhere in the world, they said. . .
"One of the biggest likely areas of conflict is going to be over water,"
said [General Charles] Wald, former deputy commander of U.S. European
Command. He pointed to the Middle East and Africa. . .
Lack of water and food in places already the most volatile will make
those regions even more unstable with global warming and "foster the
conditions for internal conflicts, extremism and movement toward
increased authoritarianism and radical ideologies," states the 63-page
military report, issued by the CNA Corp., an Alexandria, Va.-based
national security think tank. . .
As water fights erupt between nations and regions and especially between
cities and agricultural areas, Stanford scientist Terry Root said there
will be one sure loser low on the priority list for water: other
species. "The fish will lose out and the birds and everything," she
said.
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,132519,00.html
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