Energy : The Arab World’s Triple Crisis
Energy : The Arab World’s Triple Crisis / Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Project Syndicate, 15/02/2011
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/nmahmed1/English
Economic want and inequality, as much as political repression, incited the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions. It is, of course, to be hoped that new governments in these countries, and other Arab leaders, will better address ordinary people’s grievances. But a mere change of government will not make these countries’ economic problems go away. Indeed, the converging effects of population growth, climate change, and energy depletion are setting the stage for a looming triple crisis…