Scarcity of Resources and Its Impact on Security in Pakistan

Abstract

The overarching importance of global warming and anthropogenic climate change can not truly be negated, even if one is coming from the most skeptics of the skeptic schools of thought. Today the issue is of such a vital importance that shying away from discussing it or from considering it real, or worst still, considering it non anthropogenic is quite frivolous bordering on disastrous indeed. It is not only issues of morals and ethics, as studies have shown and this work will prove in the context of Pakistan, it is a national security emergency of dire consequences. This study proves that Pakistan is particularly vulnerable to the affects of global warming and if these extreme affects are not addressed than the consequences for the country will be dire. The study conducted offers explanations for as varied a phenomenon as depletion of water resources, degradation of food production, rising sea levels, rising levels of exotic diseases, etc. and correlates these phenomenon with global warming. We find that the carrying capacity of Pakistan is seriously strained due to population pressure, crippling natural disasters etc. and the consequences of global warming are exerting more and more burden on the already strained Pakistani state, stretching it to its breaking point.