Talk:Resources Scare/@comment-5870856-20141015204821

I'm going to be honest here - this is an incredibly cliched, stupid and unrealistic idea. The concept that pretty much everyone will go to war in a resource-deprived future has been done again and again in dystopian sci-fi stories. I mean, I can see conflict over oil in the Middle East (well, more conflict over oil in the Middle East...) and perhaps civil unrest in a few Third World countries, but WWIII is not going to happen, simply because even before we run out of oil and other sources of energy, the ongoing and growing movement to switch to sustainable resources will doubtless have gained enormous influence and will doubtless influence governments' decisions. I mean, why go to a war over a resource that everybody's opposed to having more of and can much more easily be replaced with things like hydroelectricty and solar energy? It's not just optimism, it's common sense.

Of course, fossil fuels are doubtless not the only resource over which this war is being fought, as things like metals, water sources and especially money would also come into play, but I believe that heads of state will more likely to come to peaceful, if not ideal, solutions to these problems rather than go to war for them, especially if that means plunging the world into WWIII. I'm starting to repeat myself, so to sum up, I don't think these Resource Wars are going to happen and I think there's several far more likely scenarios, few of which are definably dystopian but nor are any of which purely utopian. Some suggestions I would make include some sort of alliance of nations; a green revolution; international chaos as countries collapse or expand; or the replacement of democracies by corporate oligarchies.