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Food, Water and Energy
Food, Water and Energy
Those who thought that climate change, energy insecurity and food shortages were the things of faraway lands have had cause to think again recently. Climate is changing. The UK just had one of its wettest summers since records began. Food is being affected. Russia and the USA just experienced significant droughts which majorly affected their harvests. And energy issues are coming to the fore. Just look at the spat between China and Japan over small uninhabited islands – their real value lies in the unexploited fossil fuel deposits believed to lie near them. These are issues that are important, interlinked and not going to go away. And, as some of the analysts in this edition point out, one country’s efforts to improve the situation may actually make things worse in a neighbouring country.
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