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conflict - the demand side of the equation - which are almost
always socio-economic in origin.
Again, none of this is news to you. But some of it at
least is news to the American people, many of whom believe that
poverty, terrorism, ethnic and racial violence, and the use of
extreme force are somehow separable issues. You know better.
So should the rest of us.
Running on Empty: The Depletion of Nonrenewable Resources.
You don't have to be a tree-hugger to recognize that we are
eating, burning and building our way through the world's
nonrenewable resources at a rate that cannot be sustained
without doing irreparable harm to ourselves and to the planet.
Beyond the most obvious consequences of our bottomless appetites
are two other implications we think less about than we should.
First, as we exhaust such commodities as oil and natural
gas and timber, the price of what remains will escalate rapidly.
The first world might be able to accommodate the economic
dislocations that will inevitably ensue; not so, however, the
third world, for whom development is already prohibitively
expensive.
Second, a sustained upward trend in commodity prices is
likely to ignite a growing number of resources wars, as
countries scramble to retain or enlarge their holdings of such
key assets as water, chemicals, precious metals, and the like.
Even foodstuffs could once again become a casus belli.
What to do? We have known the answer for the better part
of a generation. Curb our own intake of goods and services;
help third-world countries implement less resource-intensive
development plans; and slow the rate of population growth.
Knowledge is great. Action informed by knowledge is better.
The Great (and Not So Great) Powers.
Managing relations among the great powers is the very
essence of international politics. It's also extraordinarily
difficult, and destined to get even harder. Two features of the
contemporary great-power system merit special mention. The
first is good news, at least for us; the second is not.
The good news is that the United States is by any measure
the most powerful country in the world. Since the end of the
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