Trying to dig into conflict in the Middle East (anywhere in the Middle East) is like peeling an endless onion – it is just layer after painful layer of a history of intrigue and treachery and international interventions and hatred, all of which is directly influencing current events. A succession of American presidents have tried […]
Tag Archives: conflict
Tipping Point for Global Food Supply?
posted by Planet In Distress
Regular readers will know that I bang on quite a bit about food supply and food prices, and for good reason: Increases in food prices rapidly bring down weak societies, which leads in turn to war (or internal conflicts), sickness, forced migration, etc. Global food prices are our best single indicator of the relative peace, […]
When Will All The Fish Be Gone?
posted by Planet In Distress
This is the third article in a series examining specific resource depletion and calculating – roughly – when the depletion of specific resources will result in societal conflict. In the previous two blog posts we examined the timeline for the depletion of water (aquifers) and phosphorous rock. This post looks at the depletion of […]
When Will the Water Run Out?
posted by Planet In Distress
This is the first in a series of articles dealing with resource constraints. While I covered these issues in my book, Planet In Distress, I did not try to place the depletion of various resources on a timeline. This I will attempt to do now, with the caveat that data on some issues and areas […]
From Sin to Environmental Degradation to Societal Disruption and the Fulfillment of Prophecy – How it Works
posted by Planet In Distress
The link between sin, environmental degradation, and societal disruption that fulfills prophecy is not obvious. But as with almost any emerging trend or event, once it is pointed out and explained, it is easy to detect. To build the case for linkage and causation between sin and environmental degradation we have to go back to […]