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Geography Qns for mains2012

edited July 2012 in Geography & Geology
Analyze the effect of climate change on the geopolitics of the world (30 marks)

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  • Some points
    Arctic Ocean
    1. Opens up huge continental shelves which potentially hold lot of oil/gas reserves, leading to a scramble to delineate territories and possible future conflicts
    2. Opens up new shipping lanes between Russia, Europe and North America which are much shorter leading to increased trade and with it increased competition.

    Grain Belts
    1. With increasing temperature, the grain belts may move north to Russia and Canada, thereby changing the faces of importers and exporters of food. This will have profound effect on international relations
    2. Climate change would mean increased use of insecticides, fertilizers to mitigate the damage caused by climate change. This would mean only economically resourceful, technologically adequate countries will be able to tackle climate change. This would lead to an increase in inequality between nations - have and have nots. Future compromise with regard to climate change would be even more difficult.

    Desertification/ Water Hazard
    1. There will be increased instances of desertification and water scarcity. This would mean there would be increased conflicts between countries with the head waters and countries in the downstream of rivers. There would be conflicts to take control over fertile lands as well.

    I could add examples to each point if time and word limit permits.

    @TD_1989
    Thanks for the question
    Can you post some more geography questions. I will try to answer them at the earliest. Maybe we can discuss the answers.
  • nice answer.. appreciate that...
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