Trends and Facts
“At both the national and local level, the most important determinants of food security in the future may be quite different from those of the past.”
“...building a secure world will require extensive interactions among a broad range of actors, including visionary and committed national and local politicians and government officials as well as engaged, globally minded citizens.”
“While a large body of research examines the contribution of environmental degradation to violent conflict, little in the way of systematic scholarship evaluates an equally important possibility: that environmental cooperation may bring peace.”
“Water management is, by definition, conflict management.”
“... the biggest source of human insecurity, past and present, is the dreaded Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse—infectious disease.”
“Even as oil has become indispensable, its continued use has begun to impose unacceptable costs and risks.”
“Demographic forces can exert strong…pressures on a society and its institutions and can have important implications for domestic stability and even international security.”
“Acts of terror and the dangerous reactions to them are like exclamation marks in a toxic brew of profound socioeconomic, environmental, and political pressures—forces that together create a tumultuous and less stable world.”
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