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RE: Fortune.com: Grim Pentagon Climate Change scenario
Topic: Miscellaneous 9:58 pm EST, Feb 22, 2004

Decius wrote:
] ] As the planet's carrying capacity shrinks, an ancient
] ] pattern reemerges: the eruption of desperate, all-out
] ] wars over food, water, and energy supplies. As Harvard
] ] archeologist Steven LeBlanc has noted, wars over
] ] resources were the norm until about three centuries ago.
] ] When such conflicts broke out, 25% of a population's
] ] adult males usually died. As abrupt climate change hits
] ] home, warfare may again come to define human life.

Deja Vu and it's Mad Max / Road Warrior all over again. It must be pretty difficult to numerically model an apocalypse on the Cray.

RE: Fortune.com: Grim Pentagon Climate Change scenario



 
 
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