environmental scarcity

Conflict From Environmental Scarcity or Lust For Wealth? In "Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict," Thomas F. Homer-Dixon writes about the possible conflicts that are caused by environmental scarcities, using three different hypotheses's to do so. I found the first hypothesis to be most compelling because I feel it is the most prevalent in the world today. The first hypothesis in "Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict" states that environmental scarcity causes simple-scarcity conflicts between states . I …

…conflict from environmental scarcity and lust for wealth. If there the diamonds where not so scarce perhaps these wars would not take place but on the other hand perhaps it is mans greed that has lead to such violence in many African territories. Bibliography Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. "Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict." 1994 "Lust for Diamonds kills thousands in African wars." Hunter-Gault, Charlayne cor. & Reuters http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/01/12/africa.diamonds/index.html January 12, 2000