Those who thought war and global warming has only the one connection delineated above should look to Palestine/Israel, Darfur North/South Sudan and probably a host of other skirmishes I haven't analysed in any depth.

Why are the Golan Heights still in Israeli hands? And riddled with bored holes in the last 40 years, moving water preferentially towards the Jordan?

And just how much water does Darfur have?

The bigger the human population, the more critical is the water situation and who has access to it. The more is the motivation to go to war.

Human population size is the biggest pollution. And no asymptote in sight. Technology will come to the aid. Yea, it always will, and there is a price to pay. And You won't want to pay it. But the other guy will! He wants what you have.

Anyone ever studied the Tragedy of the Commons?


PS the situation on Selsley Common (And Rodborough and Minch Commons) is solved with a Hayward - ie a bloke to manage access. Other places like high land in Yorkshire have Courts Leet. But for the planet .................. ?????