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World Economic Forum: Population, Water, Food, Energy Nexus
The World Economic Forum‘s Network of Global Agenda Councils and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) called on global leaders, particularly organizers of the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Developmentscheduled for June 2012, to integrate population in research, discussion and debate at the intersection of water, food and energy.
“We reaffirm the global commitment to poverty reduction and sustainability, and emphasize that we will not reach these objectives without addressing the nexus between water, food, energy and population dynamics; governments, the private sector and civil society need to take population dynamics into consideration,” the joint statement said.
J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue’s managing director and a co-author of the document, said, “These issues are intrinsically interlinked. Water, food, energy and population issues need to be viewed systemically, beyond traditional thinking, outside of traditional silos.” Ganter is a member of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water Security.
The document is available here, or from the World Economic Forum website here.
3 Comments on "World Economic Forum: Population, Water, Food, Energy Nexus"
Kenz300 on Wed, 7th Mar 2012 3:01 am
Quote — ” We reaffirm the global commitment to poverty reduction and sustainability, and emphasize that we will not reach these objectives without addressing the nexus between water, food, energy and population dynamics; governments, the private sector and civil society need to take population dynamics into consideration,”
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The growing world population makes all other problems harder to solve.
BillT on Wed, 7th Mar 2012 3:11 am
“The growing world population makes all other problems harder to solve.” Actually, it makes it impossible to solve. The 1/10% don’t care. They prefer if 90% of us die off in the next decade so that they will have more for themselves. After all, a few hundred million serfs could keep them in the lifestyle they are addicted to quite well. Then there would be a lot of resources for them.
DC on Wed, 7th Mar 2012 4:35 am
Thats right, one could also argue that the growing web of problems, in fact allow the 1% to tighten there grip on power in ever more direct and iron-fisted manner. The worse things get, the more repression they call for. Worse the economy gets, the more they can consolidate there economic power. After all, if they control all wealth, what do they care if the rest of us dont? If we had a healthy, blanaced economic model, the 1% would never get away with there patriot acts, there resource wars, there on-line monitoring bills being sponsered all over the OECD atm-notice that?
But in the simmering crisis-atmoshere they created, they have even at this early stage, litterally made out like bandits. As for solving problems, that was never anyones goal, at least anyone with actual power. Long-emergencies are great for keeping people helpless and dependent. Nothing has changed in last few decades, except there now more people to oppress than when I was young.