Resource Wars

Resource Wars Lean and Dino

Resource Wars • All over the world today resources have already been depleting because of the worlds unlimited wants and needs to enhance the lifestyle of a growing population

Resources Wars • Because of these scarce resources, countries have been figuring out ways in order for them to get hand of these vital factors for production of materials, technology, nutrition, luxury, and even power to gain control

Resource Wars • Unfortunately, the issue of resource wars is evident in the way researchers patent scientific discoveries so that all proceeds and revenues or at least payment for the use of this discovery should be credited to the country that has patented it

Resource Wars • However, there are more serious matters that even involve violence in order achieve what they want from another country

Oil Wars • A study that none of us is unaware of is the war going on in the Middle East. OPEC by 2010 is will be holding 50% of the worlds oil resources • This organization, which also includes the Middle East, holds and distributes them globally

Oil Wars

Oil Wars • Countries like Russia and Venezuela are also in danger that they maybe target by the US for the oil since they have it but not as much as the Middle East • Iraq was illegally attacked by the US

Oil Wars

Oil Wars • America, as we know it, consumes more oil than any other country in the world • They also believe that the Middle East holds more than enough for themselves but however the Americans resolve in war and force

Oil Wars • A very suspicious fact why America bombs and invades the Middle East is somewhat related to the September 11 incident. Saudi Arabians were actually behind the suicide jets which took down the World Trade Towers

Oil Wars

Oil Wars • In maybe future wars for oil, the top 3 are the Americans, the Europeans, the and the Chinese

Mineral Wars • When you send an instant message thru your cell phone to a friend or maybe when you play the latest online games on your computer, think about the many people in conflict just to be able to produce another cell phone

Mineral Wars

Mineral Wars • Congo – Africa, civil and ethnic wars continue so as to have claim over land that has coltan • This is a key substance in most of our cell phones, computer chips, and PlayStations

Mineral Wars • Coltan is also the general reason why war still exists in Africa • Foreign involvement which is why these minerals being bought cause tensions between ethnic groups and has partly to blame why bloodshed had not yet stopped

Mineral Wars

Mineral Wars

Mineral Wars • Congo has been in ethnic war, but also, it is in war for resources in minerals • This coltan is also short for the Columbite-tantalit • power-storing components in gadgets

Mineral Wars • Not only have conflict diamonds kill millions of people and exploit mountains of its riches, but also, miners decrease the biodiversity of the Congo

Mineral Wars

Mineral Wars • Miners kill elephants, gorillas, and other animals that face extinction just for money • Elephants are killed for the tusks while the rest are only to be eaten

Mineral Wars

Medical Drug Patent Wars • However, there is another kind of conflict that the world is having right now, and it does not involve weapons and physical violence to get resources and profit from these resources

Medical Drug Patent Wars

Medical Drug Patent Wars • The patent wars of medical discoveries • Having their drugs and discoveries patented means that they have total control and right for any proceeds and benefits there after from this discovery

Medical Drug Patent Wars • This industry is a business for big distributors that is why millions of dollars are invested in the development of products and new researches • What now then happens to developing countries such as the Philippines?

Medical Drug Patent Wars

Medical Drug Patent Wars • Countries like us do not afford to buy such expensive drugs and wish that because of our situation, we can claim the right to produce medicine especially for those who are dying • We can also import other generic drugs from other countries, but this unfortunately, will cost more than the generic drugs produced locally in developing countries

Medical Drug Patent Wars • large companies sue local countries for patent infringement

Medical Drug Patent Wars • For example, in the South and SouthEast Asia, 6.5 million are infected with aids according to UNAIDS, aside from this fact, this virus is currently spreading at an increasing rate throughout the region • There was one country who tried to provide cheaper drugs for the market and other people who are infected with the decease

Medical Drug Patent Wars • This country is India • India is equipped with advanced technology to discover and find ways to produce effective but cheap drugs for countries like Africa and Russia

Medical Drug Patent Wars • But, no matter how good these Indians are, the major distributors like the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is against Cipla and Ranbaxy • India’s leading pharmaceutical laboratories

Medical Drug Patent Wars

Medical Drug Patent Wars

Medical Drug Patent Wars • The World Health Organization being influenced by GSK banned two drugs produced by Cipla • This banned drug is able to combat the virus more efficiently

Water Wars • The world now has also begun losing its resource of water • Water is very important to the human body and everyday life • Like other resources such gas, we are already experiencing a shortage on water

Water Wars

Water Wars • Just to show how water begins becoming a shortage, and there is also conflict even in the most basic and universal liquids of the earth, the World Bank has just recently implemented its policy of having water privatized and water become of full-cost

Water Wars • Last year, a producer had filled a super-tanker which is filled by water coming from Lake Erie in Europe was sent to South-East Asia • Currently, the Canadian government is making efforts in trying to pursue other governments from around the world to stop privatizing, selling, and exporting water because water is essential to life and should not have

Water Wars

Water Wars • Now governments have already signed in with the World Trade Organizations and other programs that state a governments’ release over control of their domestic water supply

Greenland • Due to its thick layers of permafrost and thus, huge deposits of fresh water, it is now a popular must have for nations in the temperate climate which now experience a crisis on water. • Greenland is also home to research facilities, species of distinct kinds, and military bases.

Greenland • Greenland is also more valuable now, more than ever. This is due to the drastic rate in which the ice caps are melting.

Greenland • The whole hullabaloo Global Warming is causing millions to set their eyes on Greenland, not to make it a territory of their own, but for its preservation. Countries all over the world are working for the preservation of its permafrost layers which are fast approaching its end.

Greenland • Through this, it can be seen that people are not non-negotiable stones.

Cod Wars • This was due to the fact that it was a fight over Cod fish that a war was almost waged. The British and the Icelandic people were accusing one another of over-fishing. The Coast Guard of Iceland cut fishing nets and rammed British fishing boats in order to show authority. Furthermore, Iceland sets a 200mile boundary in the ocean to make the area exclusive for the use of Icelandic ships.

Cod Wars • Iceland threatened to close the NATO base in Keflavik in order to place the British under their heels. The NATO base in Keflavik is a crucial element of the British’s defense in the Atlantic. Thus, its loss can be worth more than the gains of Cod fish catch. • The British submits to this threat and thus puts an end on the resource war on Cod fish.

Cod Wars • Even on the small scale of fish, wars can still be waged for the sake of resource management. Nevertheless, it can be seen on this case that resource wars can be negotiated.

Fearless scenes which portray children pointing and shooting guns without much inhibition, to a romance ruined by the greed of a villain, these resonate the pangs of resource wars. Resource wars affect the personal dimension of society up to the expanse of structural dimension in which core morals are affected.

Spanish Occupation • Spices were one of the primary reasons of the Spaniards for colonizing the Philippines. Eventually, they were able to nurse these spices in their own land. • Their reasons for conquering the Philippine Islands transformed from a mere need of spices, as the historian Teodoro Agoncillo puts it, to a quest for the Three G’s, namely, God, Gold, and Glory.

Great Depression - America • The Americans, early on the 1900’s, experienced the Great Depression wherein they went through tough times due to the imbalances in the behavior of their economy since they have been crossing new borders. Due to this hardship, they made the Filipinos produce a great deal of tobacco and sugar.

Great Depression - America • Due to this hardship, they made the Filipinos produce a great deal of tobacco and sugar. This caused a boom of development in the Philippines as our products were sold at a high price in the Americas.

Great Depression - America • Although, soon enough, the economy of the Americans stabilized and thus, they had a surplus of sugar and tobacco coming from the Philippines and its colonies. • Sugar farmers and tobacco farmers were told to cease production, and much of their produce were left unsold. The then booming industry of Naga sugar, Panay sugar, were held to a sudden close.

Great Depression - America • In the long run, the land used for sugar planting can now be used for nothing else but sugar, when there is not as much need for sugar.

Neo-Colonialism

Conclusion • Resource wars are brought about mainly because there is a scarcity of goods in the world. • Resource wars cause wide scale inequalities in the society, even for the slightest, smallest resource. As seen in our case, we have never really grown healed from the effects of the resource wars in our country

Conclusion • There is no one to blame but the global community as resource is a universal need, although, not a universal, unlimited, commodity.

Conclusion • Although, the promulgation of violence is inexcusable for nations promoting such acts, along with the manipulation of people’s intellectual property rights. All these root from the greed of people.

Conclusion • As seen in the case of Iceland against Britain over Cod fishes, there is really no shortage of supply, only a farce in distribution. In the global scale, in the case of Greenland, we can see that resources, though finite, can be kept free if distributed evenly.

As the great Lennon-McCartney coined it, “we can work it out.”