Our Dangerous Mix of Climate Change and Resource Scarcity

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to global experts and the US intelligence community, the earth is already shifting under you. Whether you know it or not, you're on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced. Two nightmare scenarios--a global scarcity of vital resources and the onset of extreme climate change--are already beginning to converge and in the coming decades ar...