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Steep Oil Prices, Food Shortages Will Likely Spark Deadly Riots This Year

Michael T. Klare, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. January 23, 2011.

From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric of global society.

Climate Destruction Will Produce Millions of 'Envirogees'

Scott Thill, AlterNet. May 27, 2008.

The rise of environmental disasters from climate change and destruction of ecosystems will create a surge of refugees across the planet.

Those Who Control Oil and Water Will Control the World

John Gray, Comment Is Free. April 7, 2008.

New superpowers are competing for diminishing resources. The outcome could be deadly.