An interesting bit of thinking…

Key Concepts

* Food scarcity and the resulting higher food prices are pushing poor countries into chaos.

* Such “failed states” can export disease, terrorism, illicit drugs, weapons and refugees.

* Water shortages, soil losses and rising temperatures from global warming are placing severe limits on food production.

* Without massive and rapid intervention to address these three environmental factors, the author argues, a series of government collapses could threaten the world order.

Source/Full Story:: Scientific American

Related Items