As a general rule, people who are hot, thirsty and hungry tend to be very stressed and cranky. It

[Atticus]

doesn't take much to "set them off".

Will WWIII be started by some large country's leaders to distract their citizens from their suffering and give them a target for their anger?

Just a thought.

[dalton99a]

1. It will be a dog-eat-dog world

It will be all about location, location, location - where there is food and water (or where people have money to buy food and water from other places)

[roamer65]

3. That's why I'm staying right here in Michigan.

90 percent of North America’s fresh water is a short drive away from me.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Desalination plants, solar power and free internet will be attenuating factors

[hunter]

5. Desalinization works best as a continuous process. Solar power can't do that.

Nuclear power can.

Burning fossil fuels to desalinate water, even with a solar assist, is insane.

Fossil fuels got us into this mess, they won't get us out of it.

[mopinko]

4. i believe it has ever been thus.