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Chris Bishop
Guest
<<<Future wars will be fought over water, it is as inevitable as night following day.>>>
I doubt this, as the countries which don't have it by and large lack the military capacity to challenge those who do.
Oil is the cornerstone of every civilised economy, the way we live our lives revolves around it.
It moves us and the things we need from one place to another and it also fuels the manufacture of so many things we take for granted.
We have and will fight wars for that.
I'll be interested to see the political fall-out from a drought in the South-east this summer.
I dread the environmental impacts, not least on fishing.
But I also wonder whether this is going to come up and bite Tony Blair on the bum.
I doubt this, as the countries which don't have it by and large lack the military capacity to challenge those who do.
Oil is the cornerstone of every civilised economy, the way we live our lives revolves around it.
It moves us and the things we need from one place to another and it also fuels the manufacture of so many things we take for granted.
We have and will fight wars for that.
I'll be interested to see the political fall-out from a drought in the South-east this summer.
I dread the environmental impacts, not least on fishing.
But I also wonder whether this is going to come up and bite Tony Blair on the bum.