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TROPICAL RAINFORESTS: Disappearing Opportunities
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Environmental Security
Such losses of freshwater resources is considered one of the most immediate threats to national security in many
countries. Freshwater - required for human consumption, agriculture, and industrial operations - or the lack thereof,
can have a tremendous effect on the social, economic, and political climate of a country. Realizing the importance
of water, politicians of the future may try to secure their existing freshwater supplies or wage war to acquire
other sources of water. demand for water increases as the standard of living improves, politicians of the future
will look to guarantee freshwater supplies. Since demand for water increases as the standard of living improves,
developing countries, where political and social conditions are often tense, will likely experience the most pressure
from shrinking water supplies. In the future, wars may be fought over water, not oil. Already Egypt has made it
well known to its upstream neighbors - Sudan and Ethiopia - that it is willing to go to war over the Nile's water.
Continued: Extinction
Unless otherwise specified, this article was written by Rhett A. Butler [Bibliographic citation for this page]
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