RISING ENERGY prices and mounting concerns about environmental depletion have animated fears that the world may be headed for a spate of resource wars.
Today, as the world’s population approaches 7.7 billion, the natural resources required to sustain human life and culture—fresh water, food supplies and energy sources—are being stretched to the limit. As we reach and exceed the environmental limits on the earth’s exploitable resources, nations of the world are being drawn into an increasingly serious geopolitical game that is playing out on a global scale for high stakes—world dominance and national survival!
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