Don't forget all that nice clean Canadian water. Water that is needed in the US Southwest.
-----Original Message----- From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Futurework] Resource War II I think we ought to re-name this war as Resource War II, the '92 affair in Kuwait having been Resource War I. There must have been many other wars over resources throughout history but these two must be the first in which the underlying reason was so stark and from which wider repercussions are so dangerous. As the need for cheap oil and gas grows there'll be many other international wars, of course, in the coming years -- in Saudi Arabia itself (the catalyst that tripped-off the present one), Iran, the Caspian countries, in Siberia as between China and Russian, in Nigeria and one or two more key places. And then, when we consider the increasing shortage of that even more vital resource, cheap fresh water (all of it recycled and comprising only about 2% of total water on earth), which is already becoming a concern between Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, then there'll be more Resource Wars. How many in the next 20 years? A dozen major wars at least I would judge. Unless we rapidly develop the structure and powers of an independent world resource authority with military powers -- the UN perhaps? Keith Hudson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
