Deep historical understanding

Thank Glory we have Margaret Beckett as Foreign Secretary. At the United Nations, she has been explaining the deeper currents in the ocean of world history:

"What makes wars start?" she said. "Fights over water; changing patterns of rainfall; fights over food production; land use."

She added, "There are few greater potential threats to our economies, too, but also to peace and security itself."

Beckett continued, "This is a groundbreaking day in the history of the Security Council, the first time ever that we will debate climate change as a matter of international peace and security."

Indeed. Who could forget the wars over rainfall patterns that so disfigured the twentieth century?


Via that man Blair again