It has been predicted for a while, once the long term effects of climate change started to be explored, that the weaponisation of fresh water was going to become the most important factor in future international conflicts.
Limiting or withdrawing access, privatising by industry or nations controlling flows, polluting or cleaning up water sources - all either played down or ignored by many governments and their politicians, while those who had accepted the reality of the climate changed future quietly went to work.
We have seen it in the Middle East, in the construction of dams that affect downstream nations, but the west really ignored those issues. We've seen it in the desperation of famine, the flooding, and more recently in the greening of the Sahara, but the major changes underway in the northern hemisphere around water seem to still be sliding under the public radar. Maybe because the countries involved so far have been smaller, poorer, browner, or whatever...
But what if China, who has already constructed dams so big their weight of water actually affected the rotation of the planet - went just a little bit further. And what if that affected not just the smaller nations in Asia as China's work on the Mekong has done, but seriously threatened a much more powerful sleeping giant - India?
How might that reverberate around the planet?
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/chinas-mot...-side/?amp
Limiting or withdrawing access, privatising by industry or nations controlling flows, polluting or cleaning up water sources - all either played down or ignored by many governments and their politicians, while those who had accepted the reality of the climate changed future quietly went to work.
We have seen it in the Middle East, in the construction of dams that affect downstream nations, but the west really ignored those issues. We've seen it in the desperation of famine, the flooding, and more recently in the greening of the Sahara, but the major changes underway in the northern hemisphere around water seem to still be sliding under the public radar. Maybe because the countries involved so far have been smaller, poorer, browner, or whatever...
But what if China, who has already constructed dams so big their weight of water actually affected the rotation of the planet - went just a little bit further. And what if that affected not just the smaller nations in Asia as China's work on the Mekong has done, but seriously threatened a much more powerful sleeping giant - India?
How might that reverberate around the planet?
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/chinas-mot...-side/?amp
