We have seen the enemy and it is us - and there will be more of us. And less water.
Predictions are always tricky, especially about the future.
So goes the joke - and the reality. One of the most interesting conclusions of the analysts and scholars is that there will be energy and food enough to go around 15 years from now. Yes, they say, there will be a 50 percent increase in energy demand, but that is not a great problem with more than 80 percent of the world s oil and 95 percent of its natural gas still underground. There will be famine, but that will be because of poor distribution complicated by politics and war. Water will be the problem.