I doubt!

But drinking water may be the cause of next world war! Water is of high concern now-a-days, may continue in future!

I doubt!

But drinking water may be the cause of next world war! Water is of high concern now-a-days, may continue in future!

As long as the rich countries spend economics and dictate their worldview to the detriment of the environment we will always be here to discuss this same problem without solving it. So the question that comes to mind what should we do to stop this hypocrisy?  

With the given set of politicians & policy makers in the most influential countries, anything can start the next world war including climate change, dwindling natural resources, and possessing superior weapons than the existing ones. A powerful country may have military might & material strength but it may be nearly zero in terms of existence of "ethical" politicians & policy makers. When powerful countries are led by evil "gangs", then the world is at the brink of war at any time. For each day, which passes without world war, we have to be grateful for God because the warmongering efforts have been suppressed on that day!  

Yes, this may be probable basis of third world war. You would have heard very common notion that third world war will be for water. The climate change is expected to reduce rainfall significantly in arid zones coupled with increase in temperature. Melting of ice is also expected. The only source of surface water will be rivers. Mostly one rivers is flowing in two, three or more countries. So there may be conflicts over rights and shares of water between upstream and lower stream countries which may be cause of wars. The other countries may intervene to help friendly countries. Thus, there could be third world war.     

I do hope that next World War will never happen. "Conflict is a necessary part of daily life, and we all have to deal with it. The skill lies in HOW we deal with it. Tools for Peace contains the 'tried and trusted' methods used by wise, experienced people all over the world to transform the conflicts they face into opportunities..."

http://www.world-peace-foundation.org/make-peace/tools-peace/tools-peace.html?gclid=COuA-ImnvsUCFUITwwod268ALA

Yes.. it may be one of the factor.. As per Dr Ljubomir Jacic.. hope it will never happen..

I don't think  climate change directly responsible for world war but it plays indirectly crucial role in suppressing vested interest of developed countries which leads confrontation among countries. The greenhouse gases produced by developing countries have potential role in Climate change will create disturbance in season. There is no need for world war as there eruption of epidemic,  hardship in working by human and agriculture problems, human kind being at the stage of facing for existence.

I doubt that climate change will cause a world war. However, I feel that climate change is a major issue in global economic development in the years to come.

With an increase in use of renewable energy in countries like India, reliance on imported fuel will become lesser that will improve economic indicators for India. States like the Punjab and Gujarat have gone big way into use of non conventional sources of energy, other states will follow soon given the government's policies encouraging the use of non conventional energy. We, however, cannot expect a complete turnover overnight.

I feel that the developed countries with high per capita consumption of energy should drastically cut the use so that the planet may be saved from the disasters of climate change.

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/news/punjab-turns-towards-non-conventional-energy-sources

Hi all,

Climate change impacts nature and people, for example, temperatures rise globally  will increase the evaporation of water but decrease the rainfall, so that rivers, lakes, soil and plants become extremely dry, which leads to an agricultural disaster, then, death of a lot of animals due to lack of water, food, in addition to other environmental causes (such as fish, because of rising sea temperature). In my opinion, climate change will lead to some conflicts between some countries, but not be a major cause of a third world war that I hope it will never happen.

Best Regards

Not so much as world wars, but tens to hundreds of millions to perhaps billions of environmental refugees.

 India is currently in the cross-hairs of global warming, with permanent drought as a potential future climate change that may force one billion people to move--but to where?  

Like the Indus Valley civilization five million people and their animals that moved several thousand of years ago when their climate changed--those people where able to move eastward to where the rains continued to fall.  Where would the bulk of the Indian people move if their country becomes desert-- Indonesia, central Africa, the Amazon?

Had Indus valley people used renewable energy sources, it would have stop the 'desertification of Indus valley due to climate change', but alas, they had no one to tell them.

Permanent drought in a heavily populated area has been a civilization-breaker many times for the last 6,000 years, so conflicts could easily arise within the new drought-stricken areas when there is a fight for resources.  

Or a fight could begin when the millions to hundreds of million of people abandon their cities when permanent drought set in, and must migrate to someone else's territory that still has normal rainfall. 

The down-side of the climate change erasing farmland areas, is that in 2015, the farmland/human population ratio world-wide is about even, so if you lose any large areas of farmland to permanent drought or desertification, there is nowhere to create new farmlands to make up that shortfall.

If we  look at human-induced global climate change, we need to include desertification caused by domesticated animal grazing and the plowing of marginal arid lands, and the spatial extinction of the native plant understory cover in areas like in western India, Saudi Arabia, North Africa, California and Australia, that has been having a more immediate effect on local climate change than the increase of CO2.

Human-caused desertification has been happening for over 6,000 years, and might amplify any effects of global warming or climate changes, and make the changes more extreme. It would be like driving a car on already bald tires, then increasing the speed and hope that you do not run into any problems?

Every year in world different kind of storms  arrives with different name. Alnino effect in India is the measure cause of hardship face by by people. Because of this , agriculture is greatly affected every year. Each country has to accommodate their lives as per changed scenario of season and agriculture. In world, most of country producing rice and it produces methane resulting green house effect. So each and every country directly or indirectly contributing to green house effect. Some countries producing greenhouse gases due to agriculture practices and some due to industrial production.So I don't think climate change would be reason for world war.

The lack of resources due to climate change may bring to regional conflicts, hopefully not to the World War!

Implications of Climate Change for Armed Conflict : "...We identify three processes through which climate change could cause social instability and conflict:

• intensification of natural disasters,
• increasing resource
• scarcity, and sea-level rise.

The risks associated with these processes primarily concern destruction of infrastructure, increased health risk, and loss of livelihood. Five complementary mechanisms have been proposed:

• Economic instability

• Political instability

• Social fragmentation

• Migration

• Inappropriate response..."

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRANETSOCIALDEVELOPMENT/Resources/SDCCWorkingPaper_Conflict.pdf

Extreme events like persistent drought, high temperatures or persistent hurricanes in specific areas will make people change their minds quickly about climate change and demand some action by world leaders. I am thinking about the Philippines who are first in "the line of fire" of Pacific typhoons and the deteriorating weather in Australia. I am wondering how long will it take for these places or others affected negatively to ask for some action on the climate. The fight will be political, arms will be useless; will cause more damage to the environment!