The world is already experiencing water scarcity driven by over-use, poor land management and climate change, writes Nafeez Ahmed. It's one of the causes of wars and terrorism in the Middle East and beyond, and if we fail to respond to the warnings before us, major food and power shortages will soon afflict large parts of the globe fuelling hunger, insecurity and conflict.
… water crisis causing failed harvests, hunger, war and terrorism Nafeez Ahmed | 27th March 2015 News Water Farming War Climate Change … Nafeez Ahmed. It's one of the causes of wars and terrorism in the Middle East and …
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya, while blaming the damage on Gaddafi himself. Since then, the country's water infrastructure - and the suffering of its people - has only deteriorated further.
… War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's … Ahmed | 14th May 2015 News Libya Africa Water War Law libya-puddle-water-cut2.jpg The … especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, writes …
Food and water shortages and sharp price hikes in the necessities of life are driving civil unrest and rebellion across the Middle East and North Africa, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Adding to the problem, many of the afflicted countries are of strategic importance for their oil and gas, putting them on the front line of destabilizing 'counter-terrorism' operations.
… and food scarcity are fanning the flames of war Nafeez Ahmed | 13th May 2015 News Water … intensifying water scarcity due to global warming has dramatically undermined domestic … Food-related civil unrest, the study warns, is not exclusively linked to countries …
Never mind the 'war on terror' rhetoric, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis.
… Ahmed | 18th July 2014 News Middle East War Fossil Fuels Gas Human Rights Energy … Never mind the 'war on terror' rhetoric, writes Nafeez Ahmed. … Israeli government chose not to disclose - warned the government that Israel still had …
Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The UK's BG and the US's Noble Energy are lined up to do the dirty work - but first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
… stolen gas Nafeez Ahmed | 24th July 2014 News War Middle East Energy Fossil Fuels Economics … in the Gaza Strip is by no means an energy war" , writes Allison Good in The National … Why was Netanyahu simultaneously pushing forward negotiations over Gaza's gas, while also …
The global epidemic of violence against women and their systematic exclusion from the power structures that rule us are integral to man's violent exploitation of Earth and her resources, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The fight to save the Earth must begin with the empowerment of women - and that means ending our complicity in their oppression, and servitude.
… fuels the outbreak of civil and international war. Our conventional view of these crises as … (meaning less likelihood of receiving timely warnings), less freedom of movement due to … in coming decades. As a consequence, global warming will intensify water stress and …
As Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy takes a strong lead in Burma's elections, Nafeez Ahmed warns that the military will remain the real power in the land. And as UK, EU, US, Chinese and Gulf state energy corporations compete to exploit Burma's hydrocarbons, don't expect them to denounce the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya, and anyone else in the way of their oil and gas infrastructure.
… lead in Burma's elections, Nafeez Ahmed warns that the military will remain the real … is a casualty of a geopolitical tug of war between the West and China to dominate … political transition." More recently he warned : "If, as seems probable, her party …
Current oil price volatility is a symptom of the end of cheap oil, writes Nafeez Ahmed, and it's destablising the entire global economy. The answer is a major shift to renewables - but the the International Energy Agency, which should be leading the transition, is in the grip of nuclear and fossil fuel interests. Instead the leadership must come from us, the people!
… The duo is using oil prices to wage economic warfare by sustaining unusually high levels of … BP geologist who was one of the earliest to warn of the impact of peak conventional oil. … some point, then, when the US-Saudi economic warfare engine runs out of steam or decides …
The plight of Kenya's Sengwer people shows that carbon offsets generated by 'sustainable' forest management are empowering a corporate recolonisation of the South backed by the World Bank against its own guidelines, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indigenous forest peoples are at risk of genocide while corporations let rip.
… corporations. Many such deals are geared toward growing crops or biofuels for export to … approach illustrates favouritism toward parochial vested interests. In addition … Initiative (RRI) based in Washington DC thus warns that the UN and World Bank approach to …