Water worth more than gold

The new U.S. intelligence report issued by the National Intelligence Council, the “Global Trends 2025″ report includes warnings tied to climate change. Including water and food shortages worldwide.

Thomas Fingar, chairman of the NIC and deputy director of national intelligence says of the report that may effect the U.S. most is that the United States will have much less influence around the world as the growing climate conditions, water and energy stresses the planet.

The report predicts, within just two decades the already sensitive areas from China to Africa will have to deal with more droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water.

Thomas Fingar, chairman of the NIC and deputy director of national intelligence says of the report that may effect the U.S. most is that the United States will have much less influence around the world as the growing climate conditions, water and energy stresses the planet.

Thomas Fingar, chairman of the NIC and deputy director of national intelligence says of the report that may effect the U.S. most is that the United States will have much less influence around the world as the growing climate conditions, water and energy stresses the planet.

At a recent briefing Fingar stressed that limited water and agricultural land could “add a kind of competition to the international system that we haven’t seen for a very long time.” Water “will have to be on the agenda” of political leaders, he added.

…Fingar has also said that based on what climate scientists are saying there’s nothing the world can do to avoid some changes already in motion. “The changes in sea level, the changes in temperature, the impact on agriculture, the impact on water availability, the impact that comes from melting in the Arctic and opening up resources and extending growing seasons in some places, and shortening them in others. That is going to happen,” he said. “All we can begin to do now is prepare to mitigate those impacts.”

Even the United States is vulnerable, he noted, citing predictions of a new “Dust Bowl” in the Southwest and more severe storms along the Atlantic seaboard and Gulf Coast.

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