Bruxelles - June 2008. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer insisted the alliance must look to a new “strategic horizon” where dwindling water and food supplies, global warming and migration cause international tensions.“Climate change could confront us with a whole range of unpleasant developments – developments which no single nation state has the power to contain,” he told a defence conference in Brussels. “It will sharpen the competition over resources, notably water. It will increase the risks to coastal regions. It will provoke disputes over territory and farming land. It will spur migration and it will make fragile states even more fragile.
“The scarcity of fossil fuels is already leading to a renaissance of civilian nuclear energy – and this poses its very own proliferation problems.” More >>>
