An Invitation to Anarchy
05/13/2020
Robert Kaplan noted in The Ends of the Earth that conflicts
will be, not so much between nations, but rather between ethnic, linguistic,
and religious groups. Police will be indistinguishable from armies; armies will
be indistinguishable from street gangs. Nuclear weapons will be replaced by
even more terrible chemical and biological weapons. In much of Africa and Asia,
drought and famine will kill millions of people. Fresh water will come to be
regarded, rightly, as a precious mineral. Massive airlifts of food will make
little difference, and the richer nations will abandon those countries to their
fate.