Unstoppable Thirst

The Dutch Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Paul J Crutzen has introduced the term "Anthropocene"; the concept - or fact - that for the first time in earth's history, mankind's activities are fundamentally and negatively affecting the physical systems of our planet.
In particular, because of Mankind's seemingly unstoppable thirst for more and more hydrocarbon based energy, we are on the path to irrevocably change our climate. At the same time, we are creating potentially enormous risks to the stability of our economic system; constantly increasing demand for scarcer and more valuable oil and gas reserves. In turn, these resources are becoming concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
The result?
War.