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THEMES // SUPPLY INELASTICITY // PROJECTED POPULATION CHANGE, BEYOND OIL |
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Projected Population Change by Country 2005-2050
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// Sources: Population Reference Bureau, 2005 World Population Data Sheet
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Beyond Oil
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"Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink"
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Future water shortages will, if not addressed, make the imminent energy shortage look like the global
equivalent of running out of milk in the fridge.
- "The next war in the Middle East will be over water, not politics."
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretary General, United Nations
- "The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water."
Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt
- "Water is the one issue that could drive nations of the region to war."
King Hussein of Jordan
- "Many of the wars in this [twentieth] century were about oil, but wars of the next century will be about water."
Ismail Serageldin, Vice President, World Bank
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