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[quote=AL32,263334]>>Global energy crisis will pose a serious problem not only for China but the world in the next 100 years. In 20th century, the international community has saw many conflicts triggered by the snatch of oil. In the 21st century, could water shortage trigger warfares?

Fresh water in China is a very big problem; and best fresh water I mean water supply to towns like Beijing. But, there are working on it. In fact, China is currently building and working on the biggest civil engineering project worldwide: they are building an enormous canal in order to bring water from the South up to Beijing. Without that, the capital city could run out of water reserve to supply the ever increasing water demand within 5 years or so.

But, before wondering about wars and conflicts triggered by water shortages, I would worry more about the climatic changes we are now seeing and especially the ones to come. In fact, I am very pescimistic about this and I really worry about the fact that in a 100 years, there might not be much left to fight for. I would like to believe that there is still hope that we will all wake up and stop polluting our world and that we will find solutions to solve the problem..in time.

But deep inside me, I fear that the damage is already done and that once the oceans levels and water temperature  start to rise and completely disturb the weather accross the planet, peace will be hard to get....water supply or not...

I'm sorry to bring such a bleek perspective on the future, but I just wanted to share to way I see things and I just hope that this could at least bring some people to change their way of thinking about life and about how important we all are to each other ....and that we have to start working together; not be afraid of wars....[/quote]

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