This paper identifies ways in which shifting demographic pressures and environmental problems could alter future geopolitical stability, and how these changes due to the climate, might further upset the global power balance, given that addressing them is beyond the capacity of individual countries. The United Nations has already warned that global warming may trigger new conflicts for access to food, clean water and energy, or even more livable land and that the poorer regions of the world are likely to be the most affected. The current international competition for the natural resources of Africa and South America and the oceans and polar regions, in the context of rapidly multiplying natural mega-disasters, is a sign of things to come.
