As the world’s population grows, competition for food, water and energy will increase. Food prices will rise, more people will go hungry, and migrants will flee the worst-affected regions.

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | What is the 2030 Perfect Storm idea?.

I find this scary for 2 personal reasons: my wife and I, and our daughters. If you read other scenarios they point to 2050 and the exhaustion of oil. This isn’t one source, it is several. So if this ‘perfect storm’ does not happen then wars for oil will continue and intensify. The environment in which my daughters have grown up will change, will get worse. And in 2050 J and I will almost certainly not be around for them. That is scary and saddening.