The Big Three of the 21st Century--Food, Energy and Water
Here at the beginning of the 21st century, the challenges are clear: the growing population is stressing the Earth's resources to the breaking point. The "big three" are Food, Energy and Water--whose initials ominously spell FEW. Looming shortages make human misery more likely as time passes without finding solutions. Will the 21st Century be known as the Century of Scarcity? Or will we find new technical, political and economic approaches to free humanity from want and discontent?
The BBC has put together a nine-minute video , centered around the US drought, that nicely pulls together all of the resource issues facing the world in this century.
