Resource Wars

Has anyone out there read "Resource Wars" by Michael T. Klare? It's a sobering prediction of the coming conflicts over resources as demand increases and supply declines. Oil of course tops the list of scarce, high demand resources, but close behind is water. Many major river systems span several countries and as human and industrial demands accelerate wars over water rights will become common. Minerals and timber are other resources to be fought over. Klare notes that many long running wars in Africa thought to be ideological conflicts are really over who controls the scarce and valuable resources. Even the heated debate over the Nestle spring water project in near Mount Shasta is a battle over who controls a scarce resource -- a resource war that has not yet come to blows.

P.S. An interesting fact: Bottled spring water and gasoline sell for about the same price per gallon these days.